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  • I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

    Queens   Lying   Taken  
    Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK
  • 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!

    Gold   Ears   Yeah  
  • Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

    Dwarves   Trying   Giants  
  • The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.

    Men   Dwarves   Together  
  • 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.

    Following Cerebus magazine, No. 2, 2004.
  • 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.

    "Ogilvy on Advertising" by David Ogilvy, (p. 47), 1983.
  • A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

    Sleep   Dwarves   Giving  
    William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1320
  • 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 (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.11, Hachette UK
  • Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

  • From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.

    Dwarves   Drug   Adults  
    "In Defense of Jacko's Doctor". www.ilanamercer.com. November 11, 2011.
  • And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

    Dwarves   Self   What If  
  • No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard.” Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. “I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him.” The dwarf smiled. “Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?

    Kings   Men   Dwarves  
    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1069, Bantam
  • We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

    Quoted in John of Salisbury, The Metalogicon (1159) See Robert Burton 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1
  • As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

    Stars   Kids   Dark  
    Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.257, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
  • You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless.

    Girl   Clueless   Dwarves  
  • Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.

    Wine   Men   Moon  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.322, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.203
  • What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

    Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”
  • Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics
  • You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

  • An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to such proportions that it dwarfs all other meanings.

    Moving   Two   Body  
  • The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Man is the dwarf of himself.

    Men   Dwarves   Mankind  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.46, Library of America
  • 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.

    Two   Different   Three  
    Neil Gaiman (2013). “Fortunately, the Milk...”, p.74, A&C Black
  • 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.

    Music   Distance   Way  
    Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press
  • Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!

    Fear   Fall   Sleep  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

    C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.24, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED
  • Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.

  • Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.

    Heart   Mean   Dwarves  
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