Barry Webster Quotes
If this were a fairy tale, that meant the dragon had been slain. Or hadn’t arrived yet.
Barry Webster
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If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey Hepburn
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Remember all fairy tales end at some point.
Melissa de la Cruz
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In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?
Cate Tiernan
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Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.
Burton Raffel
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Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!
Adam Gidwitz
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GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!" Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful...thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?
Cressida Cowell
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Perhaps I am a foolish, fond old dragon who never learns from his own mistakes. But I have to believe that the humans and the dragons are capable of living together. I have to hope that the impossible can be possible. I have to trust in the boy and hope for the best...
Cressida Cowell
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Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???
Cressida Cowell
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You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse.
You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
Cressida Cowell
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On just a personal level, since I was little, I've loved fairytales, especially this one, because it is about what goes into making a beast a beast. Do you start as a beast? Do you turn into a beast because of the way that people treat you? I think it's something that is really universal and hit a chord with me when I was little, and so, hopefully we can explore some of that.
Brian Wayne Peterson
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One nip from a dragon and you're down? Get up, you craven school (boy/girl)!
Gangrel
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Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
Joseph Jacobs
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
Ezra Pound
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We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when, beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashings of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a damned fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with that same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke the thought aloud, 'Why don't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrades, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.
Ernest Thayer
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Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.
Rick Pitino
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The route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.
Ayelet Shaked
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Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.
Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava
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If this were a fairy tale, that meant the dragon had been slain. Or hadn’t arrived yet.
Barry Webster
