Top 89 Quotes About Dungeons
#1. I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.
Jeremy Shada
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.
Hannah More
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. Christianity ... made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter ...
M. M. Mangasarian
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.
Jim Rash
#14. 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
#15. I love 'Battlestar Galactica;' I was a geeky kid. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. I had the 24-sided dice.
Jesse Spencer
#16. Never done anything yourself, have yer? Never performed live to a real audience, have yer?' 'Nor have I fucked a donkey, destabilized a Central American state, or played Dungeons & Dragons,' retorts Cheeseman, 'but I reserve the right to hold opinions on those who do.
David Mitchell
#17. Far over the misty mountains grim To dungeons deep and caverns dim
Anonymous
#18. What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.
J.K. Rowling
#19. Far over the misty mountains cold. To dungeons deep, and caverns old
J.R.R. Tolkien
#20. Now that Sam was dead, there wasn't anything left outside of the dungeons worth fighting for, anyway. Not when Adarlan's Assassin was crumbling apart, and her world with her.
Sarah J. Maas
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased.
"He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.
Cassandra Clare
#24. 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
#25. No, Kara was the one with the Dungeons and Dragons mini dress.
Penny Reid
#26. He wore a tiny turquoise stud earring I always associated with Dungeons and Dragons types. Men who own ferrets and think magic tricks are cool.
Gillian Flynn
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Whose are these?" Sevro asks me. "Daddy's," I tell him. "So you guessed." Sevro laughs. "He's locked in Apollo's dungeons." "The stupid Pixie!" He laughs again.
Pierce Brown
#30. 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
#31. Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't take 18 weeks.
MaryJanice Davidson
#32. 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
#33. If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them.
R.L. LaFevers
#35. It turns out Dungeons & Dragons is much better on paper than it is in reality.
Robin Sloan
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Reality seemed so paltry next to castles - dungeons - in the air.
Pico Iyer
#45. 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
#46. The dungeons are full," Chaol lied. "But I'll look into it.
Sarah J. Maas
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. God, I hope we don't have to use that," was all he said out loud. "Oh, come on, Quentina. We're not looking for trouble. We just want to be ready if it comes." Josh could hardly contain himself. "Dungeons & Dragons, motherfucker!
Lev Grossman
#51. 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
#52. Both creators of Dungeons & Dragons were devout Christians.
Joseph Laycock
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Yes, Ryn, a woman. A soldier who has taken the heads of gods, escaped from countless prisons and dungeons, and decimated an army of mortals by herself. Do not underestimate her simply because she wears a bra.
Bethany K. Lovell
#57. It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.
Drew Goddard
#58. 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
#59. I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid.
Phil LaMarr
#60. Untouchability shuts all doors of opportunities for betterment in life for Untouchables. It does not offer an Untouchable any opportunity to move freely in society; it compels him to live in dungeons and seclusion; it prevents him from educating himself and following a profession of his choice.
B.R. Ambedkar
#61. 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
#62. The dungeons are windowless. One hour is much like another down there, and for me, all hours are midnight.
George R R Martin
#63. I have an idea," Simon said. "Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons?"
"Vividly," Jace said. "It was a dark time.
Cassandra Clare
#64. 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
#65. Its like a sort of internet Ren Fair. Its like Dungeons & Dragons but for cool people who have got friends.
Craig Ferguson
#66. 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
#67. Troll - in the dungeons - thought you ought to know.
J.K. Rowling
#68. I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going to be popping up in dungeons every six months. If you catch me preaching fidelity while I am shagging chickens then throw the book at me. Otherwise, leave me alone.
Steve Coogan
#69. 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
#70. You will not address me as if I'm not even here - unless you want to join Lucius in the dungeons. And then we'll see how long you last without blood, because you are two hundred years older and nowhere near as strong as my husband.
Beth Fantaskey
#71. At times you have to fight really hard to remember it. Fight within your mind's dungeons and bring it out alive before it could have been killed and buried forever by the demons living deep down inside your mind's dungeons.
Avijeet Das
#72. The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#73. Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?
Gary Gygax
#74. 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
#75. She could handle if he decided to throw her in the dungeons for a little while, too.
Because somehow, the thought of him getting hurt- or worse- made her willing to rick just about anything.
Sarah J. Maas
#76. That dismal prison house within whose dungeons so many young faces put on the wrinkles of age,
Mark Twain
#77. The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
Gary Gygax
#78. Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes.
One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.
Gary Gygax
#79. No interruptions, stereos pumpin from the dungeon, coming live from Flatbush Junction
Capital STEEZ
#80. We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
Cyril Connolly
#81. In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.
Ernest Cline
#82. Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
Jesse Jackson
#83. The difference between the quest for the Holy Grail and someone saying 'bring me a cup' is the flavor text and the number of stops involved.
Bryan Fields
#84. Here were two undeniable truths in the Realms: It was very easy to overestimate a drow and even easier to underestimate a dwarf.
R.A. Salvatore
#85. It's terrible to lie in chains,
To rot in dungeon deep,
But it's still worse, when you are free
To sleep, and sleep, and sleep.
Taras Shevchenko
#86. One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#87. I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.
George Berkeley
#88. Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
Ted Dekker
#89. A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
Eleanor Roosevelt
