{"quotes":[{"text":"Unsure how to answer, I took another grape. Time was no problem for me, but I wasn't eager to hear the long life story of a dwarf. And besides, this was a dream. It could evaporate any moment.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["alternative-dimension","dream","dwarf","viewpoint"],"id":14962,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the faeries may literally attack you, on the spot.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["dwarf","elf","faeries","fairy","fairy-tale","folklore","gnome","magic","myth","mythology","spirits"],"id":41892,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"[Artemis] returned to the aft bay for Mulch's version of a briefing. The dwarf had drawn a crude diagram on a backlit wall panel. In fairness, there were more artistic chimpanzees. And less pungent ones. Mulch was using a carrot as a pointer, or more accurately, several carrots. Dwarfs liked carrots. 'This is Koboi Labs,' He mumbled around a mouthful of vegetable. 'That?' exclaimed Root. 'I realize, Julius, that it is not an accurate schematic.'The Commander exploded from his chair. 'An accurate schematic? It's a rectangle for heaven's sake!'Mulch was unperturbed. 'That's not important. This is the important bit.' 'That wobbly line?' 'It's a fissure,' pouted the dwarf. 'Anybody can see that.''Anybody in kindergarten maybe. So it's a fissure, so what?''This is the clever bit. Y'see that fissure is not usually there.'Root began strangling the air again. Something he was doing more and more lately.","author":"Eoin Colfer","tags":["carrot-top","diagram","dwarf","humor","humorous"],"id":50855,"author_id":"Eoin+Colfer"},{"text":"I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.","author":"George R.R. Martin","tags":["dwarf","food","game-of-thrones","tyrion-lannister"],"id":60526,"author_id":"George+R.R.+Martin"},{"text":"Sorry, there’s just not enough mead to go around.","author":"Daniel Keidl","tags":["armageddon","dwarf","mead","mythology"],"id":109996,"author_id":"Daniel+Keidl"},{"text":"A dwarf will always tell tall stories.","author":"Anthony T.Hincks","tags":["dwarf","lies","life","make-believe","philosophy","stories","tall","tall-stories"],"id":176863,"author_id":"Anthony+T.Hincks"},{"text":"This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.","author":"Dejan Stojanovic","tags":["books","dejan-stojanovic","dwarf","dwarfs","height","heights","literature","literature","observe","philosophy","poetry","poetry","poets","quotes","self-imposed","the-sun-watches-the-sun","wisdom","world"],"id":227677,"author_id":"Dejan+Stojanovic"},{"text":"Orcs do not have enemies.” Monde tried to search for the proper term, “We have…adversaries.”“Isn’t that the same thing?”“Depends on who’s winning the war.","author":"Sabrina Zbasnik","tags":["assassin","dwarf","elf","humor","science-fiction"],"id":237797,"author_id":"Sabrina+Zbasnik"},{"text":"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","ity","axiom","axioms","bondage","child","children","control","controlling","cultivated","cultured","deep","deep-pockets","dictum","dictums","dominance","dominate","domination","dominion","dwarf","dwarfs","economies","economy","educated","education","employed","employment","enlightened","enslavement","epigram","epigrams","erudite","fool","foolish","fools","freedom","funny","giant","giants","gnome","gnomes","humor","humorous","humour","ignoramus","ignorant","impossibilities","impossible","influence","informed","insightful","intelligent","invent","invented","invention","job","jobs","kid","kids","knowledge","knowledgeable","made-me-think","make-you-think","master","masters","mastery","maxim","maxims","midget","midgets","money","monied","monies","old","philosopher","poor","possibilities","possibility","possible","poverty","power","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rich","riches","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","scholarly","serfdom","servitude","slave-master","slave-masters","slavery","south-africa","south-african","strong","thought-provoking","thoughtful","thrall","thralldom","vassalage","weak","weakness","wealth","wealthy","well-educated","well-informed","well-read","wisdom","wise","work","working","young"],"id":256970,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I suppose a human's carriage is a dwarf's bus.","author":"Ben Willoughby","tags":["bus","carriage","dwarf","dwarfs","human","humans"],"id":278359,"author_id":"Ben+Willoughby"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}