Top 46 Gnome Quotes
#1. Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.
Linus Torvalds
#3. As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.
Darren Criss
#4. She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
Holly Black
#5. The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword
Libba Bray
#6. When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
Walter Kirn
#7. I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.
Eoin Colfer
#8. This doesn't mean you're getting a discount."
Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then."
Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!"
Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not.
Ilona Andrews
#9. You have the emotional capacity of a garden gnome.
Lex Martin
#10. Compliment inflates.
Blame deflates.
Truth understates.
Brian Taylor
#11. Everyone called it losing Mother, but she wasn't lost. She was gone, and no matter where I went - another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns - I wouldn't find her
Gail Carson Levine
#12. Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.
John Orloff
#13. Still,I knew when I was being lied to. And I was never taking the trash out for that ratty gnome again.
Kiersten White
#14. If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.
Johnny Christ
#15. So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man."
"Yep"
"What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn?
Ilona Andrews
#16. You don't have to be the greatest gardener in the world to make a difference--You just need a gnome.
Donna Hamill
#18. Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
Emily Dickinson
#19. Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the cold from the inside out.
Stephen Cosgrove
#20. Looking around, I felt a mad desire to go shopping for pink flamingo and garden gnome lawn ornaments. I could do a midnight visit, plant one of each in every yard.
Gayla Drummond
#21. You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.
Canibus
#22. Mungo was a gnome. Disguised as a dwarf. The blatantly false beard was a giveaway. It appeared that Mungo had crafted it himself out of hair collected from a wide assortment of cars and then glued it to his face.
Jeffery Russell
#23. The gnome grinned manically in front of him. "You're mocking me," Merrick said to the statue. "But perhaps you should take a look at your outfit before you judge anyone else.
Kate Perry
#24. OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
Nat Friedman
#25. down. Remember Zivelena, who became the Queen of Metinna with the help of the gnome Rumplestelt, and in return promised him her firstborn?
Andrzej Sapkowski
#26. Nice of you to care, gnome girl. He tapped his cheeks, grinning now.
Anne Eliot
#27. I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes ... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.
Thom Yorke
#28. I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.
Richard Briers
#29. A golden dragon. Splendid. My life expectancy has just become shorter than a gnome's todger.
Thaddeus White
#30. Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn.
"Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods ...
J.K. Rowling
#31. Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the faeries may literally attack you, on the spot.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#32. Now there are five rules that separate Good from Evil, the gnome said, and wrote them in air with his smoking staff. 1. The Evil attack. The Good defend. 2. The Evil punish. The Good forgive. 3. The Evil hurt. The Good help. 4. The Evil take. The Good give. 5. The Evil hate. The Good love.
Soman Chainani
#33. We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.
Miguel De Icaza
#34. I need gnome books. You know, because sorcerers just don't get them. He didn't get the joke.
Chloe Neill
#35. I'd just met a talking garden gnome and the nightmare version of My Little Pony.
Nicole Peeler
#36. As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats gone into some of the meatier GNOME libraries, as well as the nifty language features of C#.
Nat Friedman
#37. Gnome money is better than no money, but just by a few feet.
Jarod Kintz
#38. America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome.
David Hare
#39. There were three kingdoms of Mylena: the goblin kingdom, the gnome kingdom, and the mysterious faerie kingdom.
Chloe Jacobs
#40. If I ever figured out how to go back in time, I'd tell my nine-year-old self to run the other way when a gnome showed up in her room promising a life of magic and adventure.
Anna Staniszewski
#41. Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.
Cassandra Clare
#42. There's a lot of foot stomping, clapping, and cheering. I just want to win some cash and find my yard gnome. It's not a lot to ask.
Libba Bray
#43. In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.
Miguel De Icaza
#44. I sang out the words unflinchingly though, as I stomped around the toadstool in clouds of church-basement dust, with a damp Gnome hand clutched in each of mine.
Margaret Atwood
#46. This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.
Eric Burdon
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