Gnome Quotes

• Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wings, People, Four

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• We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Desktop, Bases, Code

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• OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

  Nat Friedman

  Sweet, Thinking, Simple

  "Interview with Ximian's Nat Friedman". Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. June 3, 2003.

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• Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

  Emily Dickinson

  Home, Literature, Domes

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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• Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

  Linus Torvalds

  Confusion, Confusing, Complicated

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• Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.

  Jefferson Smith

  Motivation

  Jefferson Smith (2011). “Strange Places”, p.213, Indie Ink Publishing

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• Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn. "Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods.

  J. K. Rowling

  Garden, Thinking, Fishing

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• I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

  Richard Briers

  Couple, Garden, Lovers

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• Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.

  John Dobbin

  Sleep, Cat, Stealing

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• Xenophilius Lovegood," he said, extending a hand to Harry. "My daughter and I live over the hill, so kind of the Weasleys to invite us. I think you know my Luna?" he added to Ron."Yes" said Ron. "Isn't she with you?""She lingered in that charming little garden to say hello to the gnomes, such a glorious infestation! How few wizards realize just how much we can learn from the wise little gnomes - or, to give then their correct names, the Gernumbli gardensi.""Ours do know a lot of excellent swear words," said Ron, "but I think Fred and George taught them those.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Daughter, Garden

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• Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!

  J. K. Rowling

  Daddy, Looks, Saliva

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• If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

  Johnny Christ

  Standing Out, Lawns, Wanted

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• I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Stars, Queens, Perfect

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.16, Random House

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• Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

  John Orloff

  Derivatives, Fantasy

  Source: collider.com

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• Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!” “How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Farewell, Opposites

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• 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

  Otters, Cold, Cry

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• I hope you find what you're looking for.

  Steve McQueen

  Meaningful, Interesting Times

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• As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

  Darren Criss

  Art, Symphony, Musician

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• Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.

  Ursula Vernon

  Girl, Moon, Opportunity

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• 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

  Art, Stars, Media

  Song: Spill the Wine

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• 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

  Air, Tree, Feelings

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's daisy chain, that rabbits are gnomes in attendance on the Fairy Queen, and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born, which, as we know, is not the case. She's a drooper.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Baby, Stars

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.

  Canibus

  Religious, Religion, Projects

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• Elves, pixies, gnomes- the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants- they all tried to invade you at some point.

  Jacqueline Rayner

  Pixies, Spongebob Squarepants

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• So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man." "Yep" "What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn?

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Talking, Mountain

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