Quotes and Sayings 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 Levie -
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 -
[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 Nutting -
The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
-- Alvin Dark -
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 Bloch -
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.
-- Ben Fountain -
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 Roberts -
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
-- Bernard of Chartres -
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 Moore -
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 -
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 -
You can't really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often.
-- Bryon Butler -
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-- 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 -
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
