Top 100 Quotes About Dwarfs
#1. If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don't stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!
Israelmore Ayivor
#2. There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life.
Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
Tom McDonough
#3. Defense, national security, and law enforcement now eat up 34 percent of the Russian budget, more than double the share in 2010. That dwarfs the 18 percent spent by the U.S. last year on defense and national security, according to the Washington-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Anonymous
#4. Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs
George R R Martin
#5. I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
Charles De Lint
#6. If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
David Ogilvy
#7. "Even Dwarfs Started Small," Calla replied immediately. "In the original German: Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen."
Maura winced, though Blue couldn't tell if it was at the movie or at Calla's accent.
Maggie Stiefvater
#8. The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems - and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as 'weapons of mass destruction'.
Kofi Annan
#10. Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.
Joseph Sugarman
#11. Did I offend you?" Lannister said. "Sorry. Dwarfs don't have to be tactful. Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head.
George R R Martin
#12. I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent
in any iota of the world;
I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects,
vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than
I have supposed.
Walt Whitman
#13. No!" Leo yelled.
"Uhhh," Nico groaned from the floor.
"Piper!" Jason cried.
"Monkey!" Frank yelled.
"Not monkeys," Hazel grumbled. "I think those are dwarfs."
"Stealing my stuff!" Leo yelled, and ran for the stairs.
Rick Riordan
#14. Dwarfs are very argumentative, sir. Of course, many wouldn't agree.
Terry Pratchett
#15. The Age of the Stars had come to an end. Once in a billion years, a feeble supernova illuminated the vestiges of its home; brown dwarfs, neutron stars, blackholes ... lifeless echoes of their former majesty.
Jake Vander Ark
#17. Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs
in time, in space, and in potential
the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.
Carl Sagan
#18. How many mothers have emerged from a family trip to a Disney movie and been obliged to explain the facts of death to their sobbing young? A conservative estimate: the tens of millions, since the studio's first animated feature, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' premiered in 1937.
Richard Corliss
#19. Dwarfs are very attached to gold. Any highwayman demanding 'Your money or your life' had better bring a folding chair and packed lunch and a book to read while the debate goes on.
Terry Pratchett
#20. I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.
Dave Sim
#22. The drowned panic of not being able to ask questions or have any input into what somebody's saying is so awful it sort of dwarfs the pain.
David Foster Wallace
#23. The dwarfs can turn lead into gold ... It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs. -Can we? -Damned if I know. I can't. -Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, if I could. -Can you? -No! -Ah-ha!
Terry Pratchett
#24. It's a new era at Disney. From now on, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be known as Person of No Color and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals.
Argus Hamilton
#25. For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.
Terry Pratchett
#26. I thought dwarfs loved gold," said Angua.
"They just say that to get it into bed.
Terry Pratchett
#27. You're our honorary sixth member with mysterious abilities and visions of the future. The Snow White to our motley group of dwarfs. Plus, you're way better looking than the rest of these guys.
Michelle Rowen
#28. Yes, but - but maybe I'm just tall for my height," said Carrot desperately. "After all, if you can have short humans, can't you have tall dwarfs?
Terry Pratchett
#29. Alviss, son of Vindalf. He's the king of the dwarfs. The biggest, mightiest, greatest of all the dwarf folk.
"But he's not a dwarf," pointed out Shadow. "He's what, five-eight?"
"Which makes him a giant among dwarfs," said Czernobog from behind him. "Tallest dwarf in America.
Neil Gaiman
#30. Racism was not a problem on the DIscworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
Terry Pratchett
#31. As to the black dwarfs, they wouldn't allow anyone to look into them, because what is inside them is truly horrible. That is why they want everything on Earth to be as black and dark as they are themselves.
Manfred Kyber
#32. It is impossible to accommodate everyone and twice as impossible to please all the dwarfs.
Terry Pratchett
#33. The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.
Joseph Jacobs
#34. I have found that of the Seven Dwarfs, Six are not Happy.
Dennis Cogswell
#35. Long are the lives of elves' he said.
Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.
William King
#36. Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. Dwarfs have also the right to despise the giants, because giants too can be defeated!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#39. Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats.
Jimmy Fallon
#40. A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.
Peter Dinklage
#41. I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.
Verne Troyer
#42. I'm thinking of Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music ... there are too many to name really. And all the old classic ones like Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. That's brutal!
Ashley Jensen
#43. You must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs.
Teresa Of Avila
#44. The cornucopia that greets you as you enter the supermarket dwarfs anything that Louis XIV ever experienced (and it is probably less likely to contain salmonella).
Matt Ridley
#45. Orion nodded, then asked, "Dwarf cheese?"
"Cheese made by dwarfs."
"Oh," said Orion, relieved. "They make it. It's not actually ... "
"No. What a horrible thought."
"Exactly.
Eoin Colfer
#46. Do you want to tell me what you're doing up here in the middle of the woods?" He gazed at her milky white skin, dark hair, and wide eyes. "If you're looking for the seven dwarfs, they live in the next forest over.
Deborah Blake
#47. Dwarfs can often do the work of giants when they are transformed by the almost magic power of great mental concentration.
William Walker Atkinson
#48. A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes
will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
John Stuart Mill
#49. Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.
Dale Carnegie
#50. 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
#51. The dwarfs were staring at Lady Sybil as she changed up through the gears into full, operatic voice. For an amateur soprano she had an impressive delivery and range, a touch too wobbly for the professional stage but exactly the kind of high coloratura to impress the dwarfs. Snow
Terry Pratchett
#52. She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.
A.S. Byatt
#53. I was a modern young woman, fearless and capable (with mace spray in my robe's right pocket), and I didn't care who knew it. Attitude was everything when dealing with dwarfs.
Erik Bundy
#54. Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.
Umberto Eco
#55. In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
Michael Ondaatje
#56. Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.
Randy Pausch
#57. Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
William Carlos Williams
#58. The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.
John Bruton
#59. Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles!" said Hermione. "We didn't hear stories like that when we were little, we heard 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and 'Cinderella' - "
"What's that, an illness?" asked Ron.
J.K. Rowling
#60. I don't recall meeting Greek demigods in any of those places. Still, when one has dealt with magical baboons, goddess cats and dwarfs in Speedos, one can't be surprised very easily.
Rick Riordan
#61. We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.
Sybil Thorndike
#62. Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.
Paul Davies
#63. The handful of Germans who had reached the trench had been sacrificed for the stupid sort of fun called. Strategy, probably. Stupid! ... It was, of course, just like German spools to go mining by candle-light. Obsoletely Nibenlungen-like. Dwarfs probably!
Ford Madox Ford
#64. Newspapers play up as sensational every attempt by a Negro to rape a white woman. Yet this white rape of Negro women is apparently a different matter. But it is rape nonetheless, and practiced on a scale that dwarfs the Negro's defaults. The
John Howard Griffin
#65. It's hopeless," he went on. "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!"
"We are dwarfs," William admitted, "but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.
Umberto Eco
#66. At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.
C.S. Lewis
#67. Note to self, Leo thought groggily. Do not leave boxes of magic grenades where dwarfs can reach them.
Rick Riordan
#68. If walls could keep us small, peasants would all be tiny and kings as large as giants," said Ser Jorah. "I've seen huge men born in hovels, and dwarfs who dwelt in castles.
George R R Martin
#69. I feel persecuted by the power of mother nature, who dwarfs my farm with her unpredictable character. Yet I cling to a spirit of survival. I observe others, my family and neighbors, as we brace for the storm with a humbling humility.
David Mas Masumoto
#71. We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.
John Of Salisbury
#72. It would not have occurred to the dwarfs to give the young queen anything they had dug themselves from beneath the earth. That would have been too easy, too routine. It's the distance that makes a gift magical, so the dwarfs believed.
Neil Gaiman
#73. We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
Bernard Of Chartres
#74. He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.
John Connolly
#75. Lit, one of the dwarfs, walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the pyre, and Thor kicked him irritably into the middle of the flames, which made Thor feel slightly better and made all the dwarfs feel much worse. "I
Neil Gaiman
#76. They are ruby-colored, aren't they?" he said. "Well, they're red," said Magrat. "Is red all right?" "They've got to be red." All the other dwarfs nodded. "It's no good if they're not red." Magrat gave him a blank look and shut the door.
Terry Pratchett
#77. One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irritably into the middle of the flames, which made Thor feel slightly better and made all the dwarfs feel much worse.
Neil Gaiman
#78. The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail.
David Hewson
#79. All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
Terry Pratchett
#80. Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
Tom Robbins
#81. Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
Wilkie Collins
#82. Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
Norman Vincent Peale
#83. In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.
Susan Sontag
#84. And when I concentrate on the stars, the planets, and their motions, I have an irresistible sense of machinery, clockwork, elegant precision working on a scale that, however lofty our aspirations, dwarfs and humbles us.
Carl Sagan
#85. Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
Joseph Joubert
#86. The trouble was, the trolls up in the plaza probably weren't bad trolls, and the dwarfs down in the square probably weren't bad dwarfs, either. People who probably weren't bad could kill you.
Terry Pratchett
#87. Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.
Gunter Brus
#88. A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...
E. M. Forster
#89. There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#90. You're tell me those are gnomes pretending to be dwarfs pretending to be elves? Are you trying to play Six Degrees of Bilbo Baggins again?
Kevin Hearne
#92. Dwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There were borning stars, breathing stars, pulsing stars, and dying stars. There was the Death Star. At
George Lucas
#94. Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
Miguel De Cervantes
#95. There's one thing that's true at least," he said. "You dwarfs really love gold, don't you?" "Of course we don't. Don't be silly." "Well - " "We just say that to get it into bed.
Terry Pratchett
#96. Narnia. The happy land of Narnia
Narnia of the heathery mountains and the thymy downs, Narnia of the many rivers, the plashing glens, the mossy caverns and the deep forests ringing with the hammers of the Dwarfs ...
C.S. Lewis
#97. There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.
Aaron Copland
#98. When people bore me, I close my eyes and try to remember the order the Seven Dwarfs marched in. But it's not always the dwarfs I think about. Sometimes aI try to list all of the Canadian provinces.
Stephan Pastis
#99. If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads.
Neil Gaiman
#100. MACHOs (for MAssive Compact Halo Objects - really just another name for black holes, brown dwarfs and other very dim stars).
Bill Bryson
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