Pigmy's Quotes

#1. 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

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

Honore De Balzac

#3. Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.

Jonathan Carroll

#4. 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

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

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. 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

#7. I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Leon Bloy

#8. Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. Galen turned and looked at Logan. That anger, the seething, festering fury, had come from Logan, and it was tearing his friend in two.

Donna Grant

#10. 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

#11. Oh. Well. A slumber party with Dracula? All things considered, why not? Okay, but I snore.

Jeaniene Frost

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

M T Anderson

#13. Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.

Anthony Zerbe

#14. I believe we as humans are meant to have a bond and a connection with all of life itself, and our animals are trying to open our hearts to it.

Catherine Louise Birmingham

#15. 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

#16. 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