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• It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

  W. G. Sebald

  Clouds, Views, Perspective

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Emigrants”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

  William Shakespeare

  Fancy, Wavering, Longing

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.228, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, People, Vulgar

  William Shakespeare, Mrs. Elizabeth MONTAGU (1772). “An Essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare. By Mrs. Montagu. ... Second edition”, p.61

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• The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.

  John Playfair

  Mind, Abyss, Grows

  John Playfair (1822). “The Works of John Playfair ...: With a Memoir of the Author ...”, p.81

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• Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
  Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
  Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
  Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sweet, Feet, Bees

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.1

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• I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them.

  Shaka

  Fear, Heart, Men

  "Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire". Book by E. A. Ritter, p. 319, 1955.

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• Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

  Henry Fielding

  Gambling, Luxury, Temptation

  Henry Fielding (1988). “An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers and Related Writings”, p.92, Wesleyan University Press

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• The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid.  Awareness atrophies.  Dumb gets dumber.  Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so; the eight essential qualities of such-and-such; the 11 delights of somewhere or other.  We demand shortcuts, as if there are shortcuts to genuine experiences.  These lists are meaningless.

  Roger Cohen

  Stupid, Eight, Dumb

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• When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.

  Ferdinand Hodler

  Light, Sky, Darkness

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• There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wise, Fashion, Harm

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• The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Girl, Mistake, Gay

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1881). “Wit and Wisdom”

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• There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Fall, People, Wicked

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dull, Thieves, Pretentious

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.72, A&C Black

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• How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honor, Crowds, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.265

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• Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

  Georg Buchner

  Men, Looks, Abyss

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• I'm giddy. I am like an 8-year-old child, every day. I feel blessed for the opportunities. I feel blessed that people are responding to the work, and I'm landing myself in things that people far more talented than I am are allowing me to work on.

  Frank Grillo

  Children, Blessed, Opportunity

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• Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Joy, Dizzy

  "Minna von Barnhelm" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, II. 3, September 30, 1767.

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• I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

  John Ruskin

  Sick, Obsession, Tempting

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• And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dancing, Mazes, Waltz

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• If only Ed Fleming had a mother who gave such sound advice. The manager of Wazoo's, a downtown Denver restaurant, Fleming is a CSU alum who has been darned giddy about the Rams' recent success. So giddy that he donned a necklace made of Pez candies, a red blazer - and nothing else. A few people gaped (some actually set aside their beers), but most ignored Fleming as he strutted like a red-blazered rooster, demanding that all hail the Mighty Naked Beer King.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Mother, Kings, Beer

  "Going Gonzo In Ft. Collins". The Rocky Mountain News, October 23, 1994.

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• Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and beautiful life, above and below the waters, ... of lofty precipices, richly draped, even the sternest fronts made to smile and be glad, as delights the gay tropics, and alive with waterfalls, gliding, leaping, or plunging, on their way down from the giddy heights, and, as they go, playing out and in amid the foliage...

  James Dwight Dana

  Beautiful, Nature, Memories

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• The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Air, Poison

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.123

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• This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

  J. K. Rowling

  Gay, Discovery, Law

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• The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Horse, Stars, Eye

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• Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.

  Janet Fitch

  Sleep, Lovers, Touched

  Janet Fitch (2013). “Paint It Black”, p.140, Hachette UK

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