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Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff. -- Gary Gygax
I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out. -- Victoria Beckham
My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. -- Kerry King
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. -- Alexandre Dumas
I know Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons. We went to the same church. I'm pretty sure he's still Mormon. I left the church long ago. -- Brendon Urie
I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging. -- J. Tillman
I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts. -- John C. Reilly
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? -- John Lennon
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history. -- Steven Johnson
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability. -- LeBron James
I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons.' Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief. -- Michael Ian Black
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s. -- Lev Grossman
I attract Dragons, something of a gift. -- B.E.L. Forsythe
My biggest television weakness is 'Dragons' Den.' -- Martin Parr
What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons. -- Naomi Novik
Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years? -- Gary Gygax
It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens. -- Drew Goddard
I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons. -- Thomas Middleditch
I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me. -- Jim Rash
I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it. -- Jeremy Shada
Dragons have been known to have staring contests with mountains. They usually win. -- Ursula Vernon
What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? -- Terry Pratchett
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy. -- John Howe
I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid. -- Phil LaMarr
It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality. -- Robin Sloan
Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them. -- Mike Carey
Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him. -- Cassandra Clare
Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't take 18 weeks. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon. -- Patricia Briggs
Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed. -- John Berryman
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
I love 'Battlestar Galactica;' I was a geeky kid. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. I had the 24-sided dice. -- Jesse Spencer
Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?" "I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct. -- Cassandra Clare
Dragons have sharp talons. Sometimes I don't get out of the way quickly enough. (Sebastian) Maybe you should fight smaller dragons. (Channon) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history. -- Richard Kadrey
There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut. -- Analeigh Tipton
...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons) -- Sharon Kay Penman
I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds. -- Warren Spector
Dragonsbane, they called him.Slayer of dragons.Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that. -- Barbara Hambly
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all. -- George R. R. Martin
I grew up as a fanboy and a giant nerd, and I mean that in the most loving sense. I loved playing 'Dungeons and Dragons.' -- Derek Mears
There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things... -- William Henry Hudson
Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots of elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, giants and, of course, dragons. -- Robin Hobb
I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to Middle Earth. 'Dungeons & Dragons' was a huge influence. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours. -- Marilyn Manson
The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks. -- Jonah Goldberg
My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office. -- Ernest Cline
She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust. -- George R. R. Martin
In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart. -- China Mieville
Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. ~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer) -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.' -- Jeffrey Thomas
I used to a play a role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons, and that was about levels of experience; as you gained experience, you were able to deal with much greater and far more kind of global creatures. -- Ben Edlund
Working with franchises can be challenging, but at the same time I really did enjoy working on 'Star Wars,' for example, and I have done a lot of 'Dungeons & Dragons' games, but I still enjoy it very much. -- Chris Avellone
Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative. -- Michelle Sagara
I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports. -- Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. -- Lev Grossman
We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.' -- Matt Groening
When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe. -- Sharon Kay Penman
I loved Dungeons & Dragons. Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief. -- Michael Ian Black
Woman?" She chuckled. "Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man." Dany met his stare. "I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo's riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. -- George R. R. Martin
Never laugh at live dragons. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Speak politely to an enraged dragon. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Come not between the dragon and his wrath. -- William Shakespeare
Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. -- Charles Dickens
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. -- Havelock Ellis
There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon. -- Pat Oliphant
I told you there was no such thing as immortality, not even for dragons. -- Stanley S. Thornton
Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life. -- Marilu Henner
Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film. -- Don Bluth
I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull. -- Rita Mae Brown
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban. -- Malala Yousafzai
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. -- Cornelia Funke
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. -- Alan Moore
The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie. -- Don Bluth
I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. -- Emily Watson
After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon. -- Dino De Laurentiis
The fantasy world, the 'Game of Thrones' world, the forgotten realms worlds - they're the type of worlds I've always wanted to live in. Where vampires, dragons, dwarves and elves are real. -- Robert Kazinsky
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. -- Bertrand Russell
Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way. -- Phil McGraw
I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another. -- Andrew Motion
I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you. -- Ariana Grande
The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis. -- William Jackson
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment. -- George R. R. Martin
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals. -- Tamora Pierce
If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. -- Margaret Atwood
I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. -- Jon Favreau
The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.' -- Martin Rees
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do. -- A. S. Byatt
If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't. -- Margaret Atwood
Tonight let's slay some dragons. -- James L. Rubart
Fighting dragons is my holy joy. -- May Sarton
Americans are hidden dragons to me. -- Ang Lee
I desired dragons with a profound desire. -- C. S. Lewis
There were dragons when I was a boy. -- Cressida Cowell
I wish people had half the honor of dragons. -- Terry Goodkind
Not all men were meant to dance with dragons. -- George R. R. Martin
When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes. -- Andrew Solomon
If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons. -- Ilona Andrews
...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn. -- George R. R. Martin
Adult dragons are,astute,powerful,and sure of their strength. -- Ciruelo Cabral
A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A world without dragons is a world not worth living in. -- R. A. Salvatore
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
There weren't butterflies in my stomach, there were fire breathing dragons. -- Emme
Chasing dragons with plastic swords, Jack Off Jimmy everybody wants more. -- Sheryl Crow
Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on! -- Maggie Stiefvater
It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. -- Carol Lynn Pearson
Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable. -- Saul
Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. -- Jodi Picoult
Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path. -- Rumi
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons. -- Anna Kavan

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