Who could ponder equations when he had the chance to imagine dragons?
4 seconds sound clip from the The Flight of Dragons movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:32:22.475 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- That is the pathetic fool Carolinus has enlisted to steal my crown.
- Still, Antiquity must have had a reason.
- And so you were the one person from all the centuries whom Antiquity has chosen.
- They say it is because I am a man of science?
- I was at first, honor student, scholarships, awards, grants, research, but, how it all bored me.
- Who could ponder equations when he had the chance to imagine dragons?
- So I turned my back on it all, and started on my book The Flight of Dragons.
- The Flight of Dragons. Yes, yes here it is. The Flight of Dragons by Peter Dickenson.
- It's impossible. That's not even half finished.
- Of course not. This is my library of unwritten books.
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