Quotes of Dwarf - somelinesforyou

“ Keep your goals away from the trolls. ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb — or Dome of Worm — or Porch of Gnome — or some Elf's Catacomb? ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ 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

“ Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no. ”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“ I shall be but a shrimp of an author. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a garden gnome. ”

- Unknown

“ Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. ”

- John Petit Senn

“ 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

“ A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. ”

- Robert Burton

“ How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention! ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two. ”

- George Herbert

“ A state that 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 things can really be accomplished. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning… ”

- Terry Pratchett

“ A perfectly reasonable slab of chicken arrived coutured in garlands of watercress and crinolines of cilantro, but like Snow White was inevitably accompanied by a coterie of dwarfs-baby zucchini, baby carrots, tiny peas, small new potatoes in their jackets. ”

- Ellis Weiner
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