Dwarves famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.
-- Abdellatif Laabi -
When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.
-- Benjamin Franklin Fairless -
There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.
-- Craig Charles -
If it looks like a Dwarf, and it smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf or a latrine wearing dungerees.
-- Eoin Colfer -
The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.
-- Erik Naggum -
By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'...
-- Gary Larson -
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. (Tyrion Lannister)
-- George R. R. Martin -
Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.
-- Gerald Morris -
Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.
-- Hal Clement -
From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.
-- Ilana Mercer -
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
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 -
Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing again, but only slightly different'. Either you do that or you go 'No! I want to play a leprous, lesbian dwarf from Guatemala!' But those parts just aren't coming to me.
-- Jack Davenport -
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn -
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - it turned little people into crass stereotypes.
-- Jedediah Bila -
He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box Dwarf!" Lewis was not scared by the little man, and he felt that those who scream "Dreeb" are more to be pitied than censured.
-- John Bellairs -
Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.
-- Kevin Brockmeier -
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.
-- L. Frank Baum -
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
-- Laurence Sterne -
He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.
-- Lisa Ling -
And no-one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves.
-- Markus Heitz -
Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson -
Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.
-- Megan Martha White -
Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually solidifying into a crystal of extraordinary rigidity. Eventually it will fade out completely, merging quietly into the blackness of space.
-- Paul Davies -
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 -
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
-- Richard Brautigan -
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
-- Robert Burton -
The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.
-- Robert Fortune -
I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.
-- Terry Pratchett -
The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.
-- Thomas Paine -
Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.
-- William Matthews -
Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
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 -
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 -
I hate that when people are like, "Well, all dwarves know each other, right?" And you want to get mad, but you can't because we do.
-- Brad Williams -
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 -
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
