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Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: with a Life of the Author; Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory ... and a Verbal Index. Edited by C. D. Cleveland

“We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!”

Thinking Sometimes Earth Left Pleasure Secret Mystery Adventure Brave Forests Dragons Princess Knights Here And Now Enchantment Gliding

Author:Richard Bach

“The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.”

Company Happened Theater Profession Esteem Knights Astonishment Pinnacle

Author:Patrick Stewart

“God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.”

World God White Disease Dragons Rescue Knights Pluck

Author:Nancy Mairs

“Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and skill to the reconstruction of animals from disarticulated skeletons. Charles R. Knight, most celebrated of artists in the reanimation of fossils, painted all the canonical figures of dinosaurs that fire our fear and imagination to this day.”

Science Artist Stuff Imagination Animal Lord Fire Grace Figures Painting Skills Bones Dry This Day Valleys Fossils Knights Dinosaurs Skeletons Reconstruction Ezekiel Dry Bones

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is.”

Long Lying Periods Standing Chess Spots Range Operations Uncomfortable Knights Bishops Renowned

Author:Samuel Reshevsky

“Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.”

Courses Sleep Taken Chess Knights Going To Sleep Germs

Author:Samuel Reshevsky

“The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.”

Stills Wisdom Today Code Gentleman Knights Scouting

Author:Baden Powell de Aquino

“Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.”

World Character Might Secret Principles Roles Share Connected Brown Suspects Conspiracy Fascination Knights Masons Pendulums Jesuit Templars

Author:Umberto Eco

“The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.”

Ifs Feet Adventure Remains Contempt Knights Departing New Adventure

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“I spent my entire experience with Gary on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's God. The second time on The Dark Knight Rises I was playing God, so I ignored him. Kicked him a bit, that kind of thing. Gary Oldman is one of my heroes, I did nothing but glean from him.”

Thinking Kind Bits Lines Dark Hero Soldier Staring Ignored Spy Knights My Hero Gary Tailors Playing God

Author:Tom Hardy

“I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.”

Years Light Waiting My Own Twenties Knights Jedi Knights

Author:Ewan McGregor

“Knight without fear and without reproach.”

Knights Reproach

Author:Richard Harris

“All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.”

Two Fighting Three Absolutes Blow Cups Tea Knights Rubbish Cups Of Tea Armour Portrayal

Author:Mark Strong

“Look, I like gritty. I write gritty. There is a time and a place for gritty. I'll take my Batman gritty, thank you, and I will acknowledge that such a portrayal means that my 11-year-old has to wait before he sees The Dark Knight. But if Hollywood turns out a Superman movie that I can't take him to? They've done something wrong.”

Ifs Writing Years Looks Mean I Can Done Turns Waiting Dark Hollywood Acknowledge Comic Book Knights Portrayal Superman Movie

Author:Greg Rucka

“He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.”

Source: The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere

“I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.”

World Giving Moving Women Pieces Chess Knights

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!”

Women Chess Knights Fischer

Author:Mikhail Tal

“The correct answer is the University Titans, the West Valley Eagles, the Central Valley Bears, the East Valley Knights, the Riverside Rams. The fact you don't even know an answer to the question like [naming all the Spokane Valley High School Mascots] means you don't even know the district. How can you represent the district if you don't even know it?”

Ifs Knows Mean Facts School Answers Inspiring Bears High School West University East Insane Insightful Valleys Eagles Knights Rams Titans Mascots Riverside

Author:Matt Shea

“I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face. He cupped her under the jaw, raising her chin, his fingers pinchingher painfully. And that's more than little birds can do, isn't it? I never got my song.”

Looks Littles Faces Lying Song Dies Can Do Dog Bird Fingers Knights Chins Hounds Never Lie

Book:A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.”

Giving Stories Dark Deserve Knights

Author:Christopher Nolan

“With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.”

Body Knights

Book:Annotated Le Morta D'Arthur King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Vol I with English Grammar Exercises: by Sir Thomas Malory (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Le Morta D'Arthur King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Vol I with English Grammar Exercises: by Sir Thomas Malory (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood. For whenever the door of any Degree is closed against him who believes in one God and the soul's immortality, on account of the other tenets of his faith, that Degree is Masonry no longer.”