Giants Quotes - Page 16

• I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I mean, when your hair starts to thin, it must feel as if your life is being worn away ... as if you've taken a giant step in the direction of death, the last Big Consumption.

  Haruki Murakami

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• We have the State Department working together with Google, MTV, MSNBC, Facebook, all of these - all of these giant corporations. Google now has two executives that we know of that were charged to help this revolution.

  Glenn Beck

  Mtv, Two, Google

  "Beck Isn't Sure If His Theory About Google, Egypt, State Department, And MTV Is 'Sinking In'". "The Glenn Beck Program", www.mediamatters.org. February 15, 2011.

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• Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

  Glen Duncan

  Pain, Ideas, Stupidity

  Glen Duncan (2009). “A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel”, Ecco

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• The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, "Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?

  Adam Sandler

  Kids, Sacrifice, Night

  Source: collider.com

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• I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Art, Rain, Native American

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

  Al Pacino

  Actors, Levels, Produce

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen.

  Edward Kennedy

  Growth, Citizens, Legal System

  Speech before American Bar Association, New York (August 8, 1978), reported in "What They Said in 1978" by Alan F. Pater, Jason R. Pate, (p. 168), 1979.

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• Santa blows all these shipping companies away. He delivers more than 2 billion packages in just 24 hours. He does it by sleigh. He doesn't use tracking numbers and doesn't use trucks. He just uses midgets and a giant bag.

  Craig Ferguson

  Christmas, Blow, Numbers

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• Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

  Dan Simmons

  Leadership, Political, Age

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.607, Spectra

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• XML is a giant step in no direction at all.

  Erik Naggum

  Steps

  "Q: parsing strings". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. October 10, 2000.

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• O my brother Futurists ! All of you, look at yourselves! In the name of that Human Pride we so adore, I proclaim that the hour is nigh when men with broad temples and steel chins will give birth magnificently, with a single trust of their bulging will, to giants with flawless gestures.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Brother, Pride, Men

  "Mafarka il Futurista". Book by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Preface, 1909.

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• As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

  Barry B. Longyear

  Children, Adventure, Animal

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• There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature - and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.

  Bentley Little

  Book, Ghost Stories, Horror Stories

  "Bentley Little: The Elusive Dark Scribe Speaks". Interview with Vince A. Liaguno, www.darkscribemagazine.com. September 13, 2007.

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• In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

  Jack Valenti

  Voice, Hollywood, Ambassadors

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• I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.

  Chuichi Nagumo

  Sleep, Might, United States

  "Energy Technology XI: Applications and Economics". Book by Richard F. Hill - Science, p. 988, 1975.

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• Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?

  Victoria Laurie

  Curiosity, Mars, Aliens

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• Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The entertainment industry has lost a giant piece of its living history today, but Williams' legacy will forever be enshrined in the annals of music and television.

  Neil Portnow

  Song, Voice, America

  "Crooner Andy Williams Dies at 84" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 26, 2012.

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• Pope Francis is going to go to Washington, D.C., to address Congress. He believes the New England Patriots have been deflating his giant hat.

  David Letterman

  Believe, Addresses, England

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• The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.

  Woody Allen

  Country, Hero, Comedian

  "Woody Allen and Neil Simon Conjure a Compelling Era" by Avery Corman, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 1987.

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• To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.

  Don G. Campbell

  Knowing, Soul, Sound

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• The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.

  Alyssa Milano

  Basketball, Football, Kings

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• A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed a vessel with sweet wine For thirsty lips. So down the swift decline You went through sloven spirit, craven heart And cynic indolence. And here the art Of molding clay has caught you for the nonce And made your shame our shame ~ Your head in bronze!

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Sweet, Art, Wine

  Edgar Lee Masters, “On A Bust”

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• When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Thinking, Soul

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

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• If we have a giant mansion and we don't keep it as well as that room, then our yoga isn't good and our attention field will be very poor and we won't have power, and we'll be totally hooked on the transient .

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Attention, Rooms

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• I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.

  Gary Player

  Strong, Golf, Mind

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