Enormous Quotes · Page 15

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

— Martin Jacques

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

— Joseph Campbell

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and…

— Martin Fleischmann

That's one of the tragedies of this life-that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

— Anonymous

Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like…

— Jodie Foster

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

— Jan de Bont

I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

— Mike Nichols

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of…

— Ruth Benedict

She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!" Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger…

— Sarah MacLean

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can…

— Adrienne Rich

The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000…. Now our food is coming…

— Eric Schlosser

It's nice to not feel like you're just re-enacting a preconceived moment, but there's room for an organic feeling to develop while…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply…

— Paul Wellstone

Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you…

— Lee Kuan Yew

Dating is not only a wonderful time of life, but also a context for enormous spiritual and personal growth. You learn so…

— Henry Cloud

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the…

— Cleveland Amory

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an…

— Dave Barry

The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy…

— Dave Barry

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that…

— Ingmar Bergman

Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV…

— Freddie Mercury

I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and…

— Sally Mann

Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind…

— Mary Pipher

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

— George Bernard Shaw

There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.

— Errol Morris

Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

— Michael Pollan

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

— John Shelby Spong

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

— Sergio Leone

When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy.…

— Sergio Leone

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead…

— Gerry Adams

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

— Richard Attias

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort…

— Anatol Rapoport

I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman…

— Lindsay Lohan

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

— Sydney Schanberg

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.

— Joanna Trollope

The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the…

— Henry Giroux

“Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied”

— Katherine Paterson

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

— Jeff Lindsay

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

— Leslie Marmon Silko