Gnome Quotes - Page 2

• The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Issues, Encounters

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• 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

  Mean, Grandfather, Gathering

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.19, Penguin

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• On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.

  Harold Wilson

  Littles, Hearing, Eras

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• Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.

  Caroline Paul

  Lying, Cat, Animal

  Caroline Paul (2013). “Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology”, p.31, A&C Black

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• This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Confused, Thinking, Disease

  Message to usability@gnome.org mailing list, mail.gnome.org. December 12, 2005.

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• When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

  Walter Kirn

  Real, Drs, Influence

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• They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes

  Cassandra Clare

  Evil, Looks, Kind

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

  Robin McKinley

  Running, Speak English, Maps

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• I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels.

  Jonathan Pearce

  Soccer, Football, Garden

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• I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.

  Thom Yorke

  Talking, Evil, Clutch

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• I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old Vic in London and we were at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and I walked on stage and I've got an opening speech that begins: "Agamemnon, how if he had boils?" And I went on and said: "Agamemnon..." And a woman in the front row just went 'tut'. I thought: "I've only done four syllables, give us a chance!" I got one word out and the audience were already tutting. It was worse than any heckle I ever had doing comedy. So, I'll stick to gnomes.

  Matt Lucas

  Running, Giving, Theatre

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains in the windows of dreary houses, and Nick was unsurprised to see the curtains making their attempts in every window of this place. There was a china garden gnome on the doorstep, wearing a desperate, crazy smile. "It's not so bad," Alan said. "You never take me nice places anymore, baby." said Nick, and was mildly gratified by Alan's ring of laughter, like a living bell that had been caught by surprise when it was struck.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Baby, Laughter, Nice

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

  Harold Wilson

  Business, Littles, Hearing

  'Hansard' 12 November 1956, col. 578

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• I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.

  Eoin Colfer

  Order, Way, Captains

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident”

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• 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.

  Libba Bray

  Stars, Kids, Dark

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.257, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• There was actually a camera on your face. I don't know so much about the animation process but the camera was in our face so it could get expressions from our faces that would eventually arrive on the gnomes. It almost felt like you were cheating at times because it was a wee bit too much fun. You were in that box on your own. Kelly [Asbury] was in Toronto, I was in LA, so I was just on my own. I thought: "I can't be getting paid for this as well!"

  Ashley Jensen

  Cheating, Fun, Expression

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats gone into some of the meatier GNOME libraries, as well as the nifty language features of C#.

  Nat Friedman

  Hard Work, Writing, People

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