Pigmy Quotes

#1. It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.

Henry VIII Of England

#2. Pigmy Pouters', Malory replied. 'Feisty ones!' Gansey mouthed Blue at Adam. Adam let out a little wail of helpless laughter.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

#4. He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village.

Charles Dickens

#5. All the beasts from sloth to pigmy shrew, arrayed silently in ordered cavalcade as if waiting admission to the Ark.

M T Anderson

#6. Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

William Shakespeare

#7. The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

#8. PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

Honore De Balzac

#10. I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil ... the only reason I took birth was to see that righteousness may flourish, that good may live, and tyrants be torn out by their roots.

Guru Gobind Singh

#11. All my wife and I do is fight about sex. The other night, we really had it out. Well, I'll put it this way - I had it out.

Rodney Dangerfield

#12. Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.

Molly Ringle

#13. What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with?

Zig Ziglar

#14. Does the peace I feel when I see you belong to you or to me?

Fernando Pessoa

#15. A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations ... four or maybe five generations.

Gina McKee

#16. This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams.

Kenichi Fukui

#17. The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.

Philip Yancey

#18. That's like piss icing on the shit cake.

R.S. Grey

#19. I enjoy vegetarian food like I enjoy a kick in the stomach.

Roberto Bolano