Dwarfs Quotes - Page 7

• A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dwarves, Mountain, Height

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger,

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• A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Dwarves, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1320

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• A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.

  George Herbert

  Dwarves, Two, Giants

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• The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dwarves, Giants, Shoulders

  The Friend vol. 2 "On the Principles of Political Knowledge" (1818)

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• There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Distance, Way

  Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Men, Risk, Everest

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• We do not allow dwarf tossing. If you toss a dwarf, the dwarf will be tossed right back at you, but faster.

  Demetri Martin

  Dwarves, Toss, Faster

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• It's a new era at Disney. From now on, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be known as Person of No Color and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals.

  Argus Hamilton

  Color, White, Snow

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• I believe that every paper in the country should have one headline that when you read it, you laugh so hard you can't stand it. It has to be that way. What about a headline like this: 'Hippo Eats Dwarf'? How good is that? You read that headline, and you immediately close the paper and say, 'Wow, it's gonna be a great day.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Believe, Dwarves

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• I am the King of Frost Giants. And if you've seen any of the Frost Giants, you know that I am, of course, the Napoleon of Frost Giants. We've got some massive, fabulous guys who dwarf me and come in at around eight-and-a-half feet, nine feet. But, no. Can't you tell by the commanding presence? I am the boss.

  Colm Feore

  Kings, Feet, Dwarves

  Source: collider.com

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• I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.

  Verne Troyer

  Thinking, Average, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

  David Ogilvy

  Inspirational, Business, People

  "Ogilvy on Advertising" by David Ogilvy, (p. 47), 1983.

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• Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

  Peter Singer

  Library, Connections, Needs

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.

  William Shakespeare

  Senior, Boys, Dwarves

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Dwarves, Maps

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• Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Heart, Dwarves

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

  Lisa McMann

  School, Dwarves, Giving

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The dwarfs can turn lead into gold... It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs. -Can we? -Damned if I know. I can't. -Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, if I could. -Can you? -No! -Ah-ha!

  Terry Pratchett

  Gold, Ears, Yeah

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• In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Father, Glasses, Piano

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.67, A&C Black

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• "Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Dwarves, Names

  "A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)". Book by George R. R. Martin, August 8, 2000.

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• As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

  Libba Bray

  Stars, Kids, Dark

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.257, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude.

  Ralphie May

  Attitude, Dwarves, Battle

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• Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

  Carl Sagan

  Space, Overcoming, Tiny

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.73, Ballantine Books

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• The largest source of greenhouse gases in the coming decades will not be the US, Western Europe and Japan, but the developing economies of East Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The coming eruption of carbon emissions from the poor world will dwarf any reductions in the North.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Latin, Future, Carbon Emissions

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