Colossal Quotes

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The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try… — Mark Twain
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but… — Peter Carey
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly… — Wyndham Lewis
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest… — James Henry Breasted
I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able… — David Berg
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited… — William Crookes
This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. and judgment is what we look for in the president of the… — John F. Kerry
Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and… — Robert E. Howard
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in… — Noam Chomsky
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know… — Ansel Adams
The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to… — E E Cummings
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. — Richard Dawkins
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of… — Junot Diaz
Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way. — Bob Dylan
Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes. — Harvey Mackay
I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's… — John C. Reilly
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. — Carl Sandburg
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on… — Michael Eric Dyson

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