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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. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
And no-one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves. -- Markus Heitz
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - it turned little people into crass stereotypes. -- Jedediah Bila
When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I really loved to sing all the time, and I was constantly entertaining. Finally, my dad saw an article in the local newspaper in Phoenix, and it was for a children's theater, an audition for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.' -- Kimiko Glenn
So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince. -- Emily Levine
A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking at the whole basis of the cop novel. You get the cop moving in a different way when you've actually set it in a fantasy city. -- Terry Pratchett
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf. -- Hal Clement
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two. -- George Herbert
By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'... -- Gary Larson
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. -- Robert Burton
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one. -- Laurence Sterne
You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant. -- Benjamin Franklin Fairless
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. -- Ilana Mercer
The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant. -- Robert Fortune
Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac. -- Meg White
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The queen banishes Snow White because of her beauty. But the dwarves help Snow White because they're smitten by that very beauty. It teaches kids an important lesson: Nothing matters except for your looks. -- Craig Ferguson
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old. -- L. Frank Baum
If the producer doesn't like you, consequently he reads the script with a very negative view. But I wouldn't preoccupy myself with that, I don't give a damn. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and whatall. -- Rod Serling
The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it. -- Thomas Paine
Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest. -- Terry Pratchett
I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy. -- Peter Green
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. -- Victor Hugo
For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli son of Gloin for the Dwarves. They are willing to go at least to the passes of the Mountains, and maybe beyond. For Men you shall have Aragorn son of Arathorn, for the Ring of Isildur concerns him closely -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked). -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves. -- Kristen Stewart
I was just fighting dwarves then hit my knee really hard. -- Kristen Stewart
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
Long has black powder been in the hands of dwarves alone. Alas, winds ever change and nothing remains the same forever.Lord Arrlo Salkeld -- J.P.Ashman
I hate that when people are like, "Well, all dwarves know each other, right?" And you want to get mad, but you can't because we do. -- Brad Williams
Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else. -- Orlando Bloom
Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots of elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, giants and, of course, dragons. -- Robin Hobb
Legend has it, dwarves were made to uncover all the riches hidden on earth. Not just golds or precious stones, but the beauty in people's hearts. -Eric -- Lily Blake
The fantasy world, the 'Game of Thrones' world, the forgotten realms worlds - they're the type of worlds I've always wanted to live in. Where vampires, dragons, dwarves and elves are real. -- Robert Kazinsky
Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit"?may the hair on his toes never fall out! -- J. R. R. Tolkien

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