Giants Quotes - Page 27

• I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

  James Fallows

  Patents, Reform, Ongoing

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• If I was traded to the Giants, I'd quit baseball

  Rocky Colavito

  Baseball, Quitting, Ifs

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• I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its physical hugeness, its rough enormity. It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes, barrens, wilds. It still dwarfs, terrifies, crushes. The rivers still roar, the mountains still crash, the winds still shatter. Man is an affair of cities. His gardens, orchards and fields are mere scrapings. Somehow, however, he has managed to shut out the face of the giant from his windows. But the giant is there, nevertheless.

  Wallace Stevens

  Crush, Men, Garden

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• No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Snakes, Yellow

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• The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Archer, Clouds, Wings

  "Selected Poems".

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• The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

  Octavio Paz

  Progress, Done, Worship

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.121, Arcade Publishing

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• In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of a bulldozer; it did not harness subtlety, though subtlety went into its design.

  Tracy Kidder

  Design, Brain, Facts

  Tracy Kidder (1982). “The soul of a new machine”, Avon Books

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• From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere; we brought with us an attained state of consciousness; and while we are here, we are expanding that consciousness. From some perspectives, it may seem that we are making giant strides, but from the greater overview, our quantity of spiritual knowledge is smaller than Ptolemy's knowledge of astronomy!

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Perspective, Important

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• Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Old Glory

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

  Tom McCall

  Hero, Responsibility, Sky

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• Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.

  Veronica Lake

  Girl, Self, Giving

  Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”

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• It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.

  Todd Rundgren

  Night, People, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.

  Abdellatif Laabi

  Dwarves, Wings, Voice

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• I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

  Dave Eggers

  Impact, Government, Feet

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

  John Milius

  People, Looks, Want

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• I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got into sports is because of my father. He's a giant sports fan and we are from New England, so he cheered for the Celtics and the Red Sox.

  Erin Andrews

  Sports, Jobs, Cheer

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• If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

  Max Brooks

  War, Epic, Stories

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• I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.

  Ty Burrell

  Taken, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

  Gwendoline Christie

  Nice, Years, Feet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out.

  Gina Carano

  Fun, Pyramids, People

  "Maxim Monday: MMA Cutie Gina Carano Talks About Her 'First Time'". www.foxnews.com. February 16, 2009.

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• While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

  Thomas Dolby

  Intellectual, Quality, Legs

  Song: Airhead, Album: Aliens Ate My Buick

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• Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.

  Jens Jensen

  Life, Smile, Nature

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• Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Feet, Newton

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• When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.

  Michael Chiklis

  Thinking, Space, Mourning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Wind, Sea, Ratios

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