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  • I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

    "Producers David Benioff, Dan Weiss & George R.R. Martin Talk GAME OF THRONES Season 3 and 4, Martin’s Cameo, the End of the Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2013.
  • Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.

    Dwarves   Long   Gold  
    J. R. R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: Illustrated by Alan Lee”, p.36, HarperCollins UK
  • 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  
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.

    Hero   Dwarves   Ideas  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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
  • 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  
  • 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
  • I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves.

    Hurt   Fighting   Dwarves  
  • Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.

    Eye   Dwarves   Air  
    J. R. R. Tolkien (1985). “The Hobbit”
  • What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?

    Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”
  • Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light.

    Sleep   Dark   Night  
    J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”
  • You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

  • Man is the dwarf of himself.

    Men   Dwarves   Mankind  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.46, Library of America
  • 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
  • I was just fighting dwarves then hit my knee really hard.

  • 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  
  • Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

    Dwarves   House   Dumb  
  • This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

    Love   Senior   Dwarves  
    'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]
  • If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.

  • Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.

    Horse   Dwarves   Knights  
  • As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

    Dwarves   America   Long  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press
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