Dragon Scales Quotes

#1. He was impugning my virtue. I ought to have been offended, but for some reason the idea tickled me. That could be my next career: instrument of torture! Seducing prisoners, and then revealing my dragon scales! They would confess out of sheer horror.

Rachel Hartman

#2. I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

Rachel McAdams

#3. for only the eye of sincerity can see. The eye of curiosity has the cataract of doubt, and is blind already.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#4. Caught Summer is always an imagined time. Time gave it, yes, but time out of any mind. There must be prime In the heart to beget that season, to reach past rain and find Riding the palest days Its perfect blaze.

Richard Wilbur

#5. Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

Michelle Huneven

#6. The society is the enemy when it imposes its structures on the individual.
On the dragon there are many scales. Every one of them says "Thou Shalt."
Kill the dragon "Thou Shalt."
When one has killed that dragon, one has become The Child.

Joseph Campbell

#7. The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you're just a wee dragon lad.

Sully Tarnish

#8. organizations is entirely coincidental.

Jennifer Ashley

#9. I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.

Tony Adams

#10. We must seek the truth, love it, defend it, and hand it down uncorrupted to our posterity.

Philipp Melanchthon

#11. Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions,

Rick Remender

#12. Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.

Barbara Holland

#13. My cousin Jeff used to say that the tragedy of relationships is that women want men to change, and they don't, while men don't want women to change, and they do.

Maggie McNeill