Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Turing

The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.

Don Bluth

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

Don Bluth

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

William Shakespeare

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

Bryan Davis

If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?

Diana Wynne Jones

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

Madeleine Albright

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

Aristotle

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

Arthur Miller

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

David Moody

Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

Barbara Ehrenreich

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

Demetri Martin

I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti.

Elizabeth Warren

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

Charles Krauthammer

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

Dean Acheson

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Edward Abbey

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

Elinor Glyn

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.

C. S. Lewis

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

Agnetha Faltskog

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

Agnes Varda

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

Agnes Repplier

Economics and ethics have little in common.

Charles W. Chesnutt

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

Charles de Gaulle

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

Charles de Gaulle

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

Charles Dickens

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

Charles Caleb Colton

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.