Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

Rick Riordan

Liz cleared her throat. "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like....little person, or vertically challenged,or-" "I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people," Bes grumbled. "I'm a dwarf!

Laurence Sterne

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.

Terry Pratchett

Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" He said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

John F. Kennedy

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.

C. S. Lewis

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

Robert Fortune

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.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

Wilkie Collins

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

James Hansen

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.

James Fallows

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Cervantes Saavedra

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Murray Rothbard

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

Mark Buchanan

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

Ellen Hopkins

Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

Woody Johnson

It is our intention to be partners with the Giants in perpetuity.

Li Zhaoxing

They were so indifferent. They simply said, 'Well, we're sorry.' Then they shrugged their shoulders and walked away.

Mindy Kaling

I've always had that chip on my shoulder. I've just always been super hard on myself.

Bruce Springsteen

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

Maria Shriver

I stand on the shoulders of women who marched before me.

John Flanagan

Would you trust him with your life, Halt?" Gilan interrupted, and Halt looked up at him. "Yes," he said quietly. Gilan patted his shoulder once more. "Then trust him with his own," he said simply.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

C. S. Lewis

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

Victoria Wood

If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder.

Tom Robbins

…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.