Quotes About Slaying The Dragon

#1. Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#2. Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

A. N. Wilson

#3. Brothers and sisters no genuine change can ever take place in a generation or epoch without first slaying the dragon of religion.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

Jodie Evans

#5. Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.

Jorge Luis Borges

#6. I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

Jeff Lynne

#7. Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

David Beckham

#8. When I came to the West and heard about knights slaying dragons, I was shocked. In Tibet, the dragon symbolizes incomprehensible profundity.

Sakyong Mipham

#9. A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

W. H. Auden

#10. Sarah felt about great sex the way St. George felt about slaying dragons ...

Magnus Flyte

#11. There are trials in life that feel as tremendous as a quest to slay dragons. These trials are daunting. They require hard work, determination, and courage. But when the dragon is finally slain, the relief is immense.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. The Fairy Queen has sent you to do brave deeds in this world. That High City that you see is in another world. Before you climb the path to it and hang your shield on its wall, go down into the valley and fight the dragon that you were sent to fight.

Margaret Hodges

#13. I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#14. Technology is great...when it works.

Bobby Darnell

#15. Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Renata Adler

#16. It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

Terence McKenna