Top 50 Dragons Quotes

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.

It was a lot of ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ all through my teens.

It’s not like I love dragons! Only on ‘Game of Thrones!’ Our dragons are amazing, and they look really real. But I think after ‘Game of Thrones,’ I won’t be a fantasy fan.

When we were first writing ‘Stranger Things,’ the first thing we wrote was that Dungeons & Dragons scene. And we wrote it in about two minutes. It just poured out of us because it was so close to us.

If people have got an amazing opportunity such as on ‘Dragons’ Den’ and they mess it up by being lazy with their presentation it does make me a bit cross.

I’m the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.

Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people don’t cross.

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.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you look at all the investments made during ‘Dragons’ Den,’ the ratio of those that make it to those that don’t is actually extremely high.

When I first started on ‘Dragons’ Den,’ I was under pressure to buy flashy cars and boats but I resisted.

Red Sonja, she was a hellraiser before Buffy, Xena, and Ripley even existed. When so many heroines in comics were all hung up on romance and the bizarre gender politics of comics at the time, Sonja was out cutting off the heads of dragons and pirates.

Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines – they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.

When it comes to China, there are genuine giants that need to be conquered and dragons to tame. Protecting intellectual property rights and leveling the playing field for international trade are serious matters that must be resolved. But that will happen through honest negotiation.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

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.

There’s this wonderful first assistant and he’ll be saying, ‘Now Harry goes down among the dragons.’ You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you’re sunk.

Ray Harryhausen’s ‘Sinbad’ picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years – and loved it!

When I was a teenager, what I most wanted to read were fantasy novels. Not Tolkien and Malory, but sword-and-sorcery pulp. I craved glowy blue magic, chainmail bikinis, dragons with unpronounceable names.

It’s been a challenge for me my whole life in that my insides don’t necessarily match my outsides… People try to strike up a conversation with me about Dungeons & Dragons or comic books, and I’m like, ‘I can’t. I’m sorry.’

Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn’t take 18 weeks.

I don’t like dragons and blood all that much.

Sir Terry Pratchett – he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled – wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs.

Americans are hidden dragons to me.

It’s a brilliant job. I’m literally paying my mortgage by fighting imaginary dragons.

I’ve always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.

First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, ‘Dragons of Autumn Twilight’ began what would be one of the icons of my grunge-stained disenchanted childhood.

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.

I couldn’t enjoy ‘A Dance With Dragons,’ unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on ‘Game of Thrones,’ so all I could do is think, ‘We’re going to have to shift that,’ ‘We won’t be able to afford that,’ or ‘That’s a great scene.’

I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn’t shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons.

My nerdy pursuits are more like video games, Dungeons and Dragons, stuff like that.

I’m more nerdy in a sense of, like, video games and Dungeons and Dragons and Renaissance Faire. But not nerdy in a sense that I know how to create apps.

The reality in business and in ‘Dragons’ Den’ is you win some, and you lose some.

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?

I’ll forever look at Imagine Dragons and hear them on the radio and think, ‘They’re great people.’

We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

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.

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.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I’m not afraid of the Taliban.

Much as I’m loving the ‘Strictly’ experience, I’m sure I’ll always be better known for my business career and my appearances on ‘Dragons’ Den’ than I will for my cha-cha-cha or Viennese waltz.