Dwarves Quotes - Page 4

• The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end.

  Eoin Colfer

  Eye, Tunnels, Flying

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.339, Penguin UK

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• And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Explanation, Halls, Hung

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Orion nodded, then asked, “Dwarf cheese?” “Cheese made by dwarfs.” “Oh,” said Orion, relieved. “They make it. It’s not actually . . .” “No. What a horrible thought.” “Exactly.

  Eoin Colfer

  Orion, Cheese, Made

  Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex”, p.109, Penguin UK

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• Liz cleared her throat. "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like....little person, or vertically challenged,or-" "I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people," Bes grumbled. "I'm a dwarf!

  Rick Riordan

  People, Liz, Use

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.477, Penguin UK

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• We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.

  Alan Stern

  Science, Everyday, Pluto

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• As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Long, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press

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• Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Cunning, Dwarfs

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• Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Trying, Giants, Equal

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• When I lie down to love,
  old dwarf heart shakes her head.
  Like an imbecile she was born old.

  Anne Sexton

  Lying, Heart, Age

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

  Mason Cooley

  Self, What If, Sound

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• For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Real, Book

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• I loved Dungeons & Dragons. Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.

  Michael Ian Black

  Character, Warrior, Opportunity

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Moving, Writing, Army

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• What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Rights, Giants

  Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”

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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, Eight

  Source: collider.com

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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, Should Have

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• We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to dwarf you. It tells you that the sun will not fluxuate for another billion years, that species come and go, and, in other words, on a temporal scale you don't matter. And that now doesn't matter. But when you look at the release of energy, the asymptotic speeding up of processes, we tend to be xenophobically oriented toward the human.

  Terence McKenna

  Humble, Years, Energy

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• I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves.

  Kristen Stewart

  Hurt, Fighting, Scene

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• It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.

  Graham Stuart Thomas

  Real, Believe, Choices

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• You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Dwarfs, Ifs

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• For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Grateful, Despair, Proud

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• Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Giants, Dwarfs

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• Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Somewhere Else, Giants, Olympus

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• Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mountain, Giants, Wells

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• We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

  Bernard of Chartres

  Inspirational, Life, Able

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