Giants Quotes
756 Giants quotes by 577 unique authors
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Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles…
— Matt Taibbi
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Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.
— Robin McKinley
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Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I…
— Edmond Rostand
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From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All…
— Abraham Lincoln
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A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil…
— Patricia Briggs
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I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well,…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable…
— Al Gore
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I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It…
— David Klass
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I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were…
— Octavio Paz
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Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing…
— Jonathan Stroud
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My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my…
— C.S. Lewis
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Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither…
— Oscar Wilde
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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…
— Gideon Defoe
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It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS,…
— William Goldman
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Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if…
— Libba Bray
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the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people…
— Banksy
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
— Roberto Bolano
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She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the…
— Rick Riordan
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The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled…
— Ken Kesey
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Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
— Wilkie Collins
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I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound…
— Rick Riordan
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking…
— Novalis
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The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
— Anais Nin
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