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Quotes About Gnome

You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.
~ Canibus
I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.
~ Eoin Colfer
Ctihodný kupec Sulimir…" vydechl gnóm, "vzkazuje, že kupec Biberveldt je divoký vepÃ…â"¢ Å¡tÄ›tiná?, spekulant a vydÃ…â"¢iduch a že on, Sulimir, pÃ…â"¢eje Biberveldtovi, aby dostal praÅ¡ivinu. Dává dvÄ› koruny ?tyÃ…â"¢icet pÄ›t a je to jeho poslední slovo.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
She watched halflings at work creating ornate wineskins from goat's hide in full view of the public, and she was delighted by the beautiful dolls on display at a stall run by a pair of half-elves. She looked at wares made of malachite and jasper, which a gruff, gloomy gnome was offering for sale. She inspected the swords in a swordsmith's workshop with interest and the eye of an expert. She watched girls weaving wicker baskets and concluded that there was nothing worse than work.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword
~ Libba Bray
There's a lot of foot stomping, clapping, and cheering. I just want to win some cash and find my yard gnome. It's not a lot to ask.
~ Libba Bray
I sang out the words unflinchingly though, as I stomped around the toadstool in clouds of church-basement dust, with a damp Gnome hand clutched in each of mine.
~ Margaret Atwood
To my amazement, I have heard that there are people who have never seen a gnome. I can't help pitying these people. I am certain there must be something wrong with their eyesight.
~ Axel Munthe
Supposing I fell off ?' said Dodder rather nervously. 'Oh, you need not worry about that, little gnome, if you hold on tightly!
~ B.B.
His woolly grey hair, short thick body, air of perpetual busyness, suggested an industrious gnome conscripted into the service of the army; a gnome who also liked to practise considerable malice against the race of men with whom he mingled, by making as complicated as possible every transaction they had to execute through himself.
~ Anthony Powell
Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look of a gnome or prematurely vicious child. But underneath the suggestion of peculiar knowingness an apparent and immense credulity lurked.
~ Anthony Powell
My hand landed on a rock, and the gnome landed on it, squashing my thumb between the rock and the gnome. Basically, it was crushed and took the end of my thumb off. I just looked at my hand, and the first thought that flashed into my mind was, 'How on earth am I going to make my devil horn sign now? That's my trademark!'
~ Ronnie James Dio
Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the cold from the inside out.
~ Stephen Cosgrove
You want to get married? I'll marry you right now. Is the gnome a preacher, because I'll do it. That's a hell of a proposal. What did he say? Astamur asked. He wants me to marry him. Astamur relayed it. Atsany waved his pipe and Astamur translated back. Ha! What? Curran Snarled. Atsany says you're not ready for marriage. You don't have the right temperament for it. Curran struggled with that for a second Let me know if your head's going to explode, so I can duck.
~ Ilona Andrews
This doesn't mean you're getting a discount. Audrey heaved a mock sigh. Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then. Gnome choked on the soup. I'm old enough to be your grandfather! Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. But you're not.
~ Ilona Andrews
This really blew my mind, the fact that me, an over fed, long haired, leaping gnome, should be the star of a Hollywood movie.
~ Eric Burdon
She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
~ Holly Black
OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
~ Nat Friedman
America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome.
~ David Hare
If you were very, very small, smaller than a leprechaun, smaller than a gnome or a fairy, and you lived in a vagina, every time a penis came in there would be a natural disaster. Your dishes would fall out of the cupboards and break and the furniture slide all the way to the other side of the room. It would take a long time to clean up afterwards.
~ Mary Ruefle