quotes about Giants
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
-- A. N. Wilson -
The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
-- Aaron LevieSource : Twitter post from Apr 13, 2013
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The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
-- Adam Savage -
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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 -
Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.
-- Alissa NuttingSource : "A teachable moment". Interview with John Lee, logger.believermag.com. August 6, 2013.
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The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
-- Alvin Dark -
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As I go about my work as Premier, I know I stand on the shoulders of giants.
-- Anna Bligh -
I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.
-- Anne Lamott -
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
-- Arianna Huffington -
The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.
-- Arthur BlochSource : Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult
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I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
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Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.
-- Ben FountainSource : Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.161, Canongate Books
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You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.
-- Benjamin Franklin Fairless -
It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but even here, God is seen as the object of his own love. It is yet another step to realize that God is beyond all subject and object and is Himself love without subject or object. This is the step beyond our highest experiences of love and union, a step in which self is not around to divide, separate, objectify or claim anything for itself. Self does not know God; it cannot love him, and from the beginning has never done so.
-- Bernadette RobertsSource : Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.155, SUNY Press
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We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
-- Bernard of ChartresSource : Quoted in John of Salisbury, The Metalogicon (1159) See Robert Burton 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1
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The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.
-- Beth MooreSource : Beth Moore (2009). “Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds”, p.22, B&H Publishing Group
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I've always been told I have a giant placenta.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.
-- Bill Burr -
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From the air the Mexican landscape looks as if it had been stirred with a giant spoon.
-- Biloine W. Young -
Did you ever notice that America is shaped like one big, giant toilet bowl?
-- Bret Hart -
In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them.
-- Brian Andreas -
You can’t out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them.
-- Brian Halligan -
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You can't really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often.
-- Bryon Butler -
I'm-going-to-tilt-my-head-at-a-perpendicular-angle-and-then-attempt-to-extract-your-soul-through-your-mouth-like-some-giant-alien-sucker-fish
-- Burt Lancaster -
Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.
-- Callie Khouri -
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We hated the Giants. We just hated the uniform.
-- Carl Furillo -
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you.
-- Chia Thye Poh -
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.
-- China Mieville -
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Rush Limbaugh is beginning to look more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come. Not yet, but we'll be there to watch.
-- Chris Matthews -
There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.
-- Chris Pratt -
'Ten Year' was probably - I might say 'Ten Year' was my favorite filming experience of anything I ever worked on. It was totally different from 'Moneyball' in that it was a small budget, independent movie. It had a giant ensemble of actors, all of whom were basically working for free.
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Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.
-- Christian D. Larson -
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Just as God gave Moses exactly what he needed to accomplish great things, he will equip us in the same way. If he calls us to slay giants, he will make us into giant slayers.
-- Christine Caine -
The giant in front of you is never bigger than the God who lives in you.
-- Christine CaineSource : FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Apr 30, 2013
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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 -
Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.
-- Claire LaZebnik -
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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
-- Clive James -
In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.
-- Corita Kent -
Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.
-- Craig Claiborne -
I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.
-- Dan Fouts -
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I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.
-- Dan WellsSource : Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.59, Macmillan
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Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards… the rest of you should be sharpening your knives,
-- Dan Wieden -
I was being chased by a giant crab. [Audience laughs] That's not funny.
-- Dane Cook -
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Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one.
-- David BachSource : FaceBook post by David Bach from Jul 16, 2012
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Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?
-- David H. Hubel -
Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
-- David Lynch -
If you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants
-- David Ogilvy -
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Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.
-- Deborah King -
I started rockin' the BowTie when I was a rookie with the New York Giants.
-- Dhani JonesSource : "Creating a Culture of Conversation" by Dhani Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.
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There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.
-- Don King -
With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.
-- Donald SadowaySource : "The missing link to renewable energy". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2012.
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People don't remember you for all of the good things you do. They remember the time you blew a giant green snot bubble out your nose.
-- Donna Barr -
Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.
-- Douglas Rushkoff -
David was the last one we would have chosen to fight the giant, but he was chosen of God.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
-- Edward Abbey -
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
-- Edward Abbey -
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 -
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.
-- Edwin Percy WhippleSource : Edwin Percy Whipple (1859). “Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life”, p.162
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Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
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Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus - sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.
-- Emilie Loring -
With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
-- Ernie Harwell -
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
-- Ernie PyleSource : Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.117, U of Nebraska Press
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America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.
-- Fisher Ames -
As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.
-- Franklin P. Adams -
These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.
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There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.
-- Frederick Schiller Faust -
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I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.
-- Gabe NewellSource : "Pinch Spaceships, Look Stupid: Living The Life Of A Giant Space Crab" by Ryan Rigney, www.wired.com. April 26, 2013.
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We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.
-- Gene Stallings -
If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.
-- George Pendle -
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It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.
-- George R. R. MartinSource : George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.899, Bantam
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
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That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.
-- Gideon DefoeSource : Gideon Defoe (2010). “The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab”, p.47, Vintage
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I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
-- Giulio Andreotti -
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When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!†and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of Toronto and I believe they should be preserved and remounted in the interests of our city's heritage.
-- Gordon Lightfoot -
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
-- Hank Aaron -
There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
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I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.
-- Henry Cavill -
Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.
-- Homer -
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.
-- Hudson Taylor -
There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.
-- Isaac Asimov -
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
-- Isoroku Yamamoto -
Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.
-- Jack Ma -
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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 -
Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
-- James A. Garfield -
The universe is like a giant bank vault lock, where the tumblers are constantly moving and once in a while the tumblers line up and you have to listen for the click. So you must be prepared in that moment to step through the door.
-- James Cameron -
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I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
-- James Fallows -
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.
-- James HansenSource : "James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 7, 2017.
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An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.
-- Jami Attenberg -
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn -