Quotes by Dwarves As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions. Ralph Waldo Emerson dwarveslongamerica Man is the dwarf of himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson dwarvesmankindmen 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 lizdwarvespeople A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. Robert Burton dwarveseyemotivational 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 chinesedwarvestree You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless. Rick Riordan cluelessdwarvesgirl You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully. Rod Serling dwarfsdwarveswriting If the producer doesn't like you, consequently he reads the script with a very negative view. But I wouldn't preoccupy myself with that, I don't give a damn. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and whatall. Rod Serling damn-youdwarvesviews The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. Samuel Taylor Coleridge shouldersdwarvesgiants 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 heightdwarvesmountain A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller. Seneca the Younger dwarvesclimbingmountain 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 dwarvesgiantstrying 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 dwarveshumbleyears 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 dwarvesmedicinemen The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian’s opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be. Terry Pratchett dwarvesreadingbook I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it. Thomas Carlyle dwarveseducationmen Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" he said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes." Terry Pratchett blankdwarvesgiants Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous. Thomas Sowell dwarvescreatingjustice 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 dwarvesmencountry A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking at the whole basis of the cop novel. You get the cop moving in a different way when you've actually set it in a fantasy city. Terry Pratchett dwarvescitiesmoving«123456»
