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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 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 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
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
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air. -- Walter Winchell
It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens. -- Drew Goddard
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
I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid. -- Phil LaMarr
I love 'Battlestar Galactica;' I was a geeky kid. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. I had the 24-sided dice. -- Jesse Spencer
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
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
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
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. -- Michel de Montaigne
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
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
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. -- George Haven Putnam
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
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 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
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
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
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 '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
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? -- Leonard Cohen
Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years? -- Gary Gygax
I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons. -- Thomas Middleditch
It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality. -- Robin Sloan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. -- Cyril Connolly
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. -- Jesse Jackson
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. -- Lucretius
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! -- John Milton
I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses. -- William Shakespeare
In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence... -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet. -- George W. Bush
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. -- John Milton
What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. -- John Bunyan
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on. -- Bernard DeVoto
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
I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri. -- Parley P. Pratt
So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged by his dungeon; but, sustain'd and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Thanatopsis -- William C. Bryant
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable? -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them. -- R.L. LaFevers
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows. -- J. K. Rowling
If you're demanding a rodeo jester be thrown in the dungeons for mocking the king, don't pretend you support a free country. -- Steve Stockman
Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Your wife hold two tickets in her hands for you: one to the gate of heaven and the other to the dungeons of hell. -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell. -- Jean Genet
Mothers are like dungeons. Some really stink and you'll do anything to avoid them. And some are lush sanctuaries filled with gold, jewels, and butterscotch schnapps-spiked Nestle Nesquik. -- Shelly Mazzanoble
But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons. -- S. S. Van Dine
My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life, especially with so few years to enjoy what little there is. -- Lauren DeStefano

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