Giants Quotes

• So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Lost
  • Sun
  • Rain

• Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Family
  • Soul
  • Feels

• The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Play
  • Giants

• When giants fought, ants were crushed.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Fight
  • Giants
  • Ants

• In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing

  

  Willie Mays
  • Giants
  • Mercury
  • Parking

• The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Team
  • College
  • Football

• Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Feet
  • Clouds
  • Tall

• Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Study

• There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Baseball

• I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • See
  • Giants
  • Shoulders

• Over Kyle's shoulder she could see grandpa, looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a giant pissed-off blowfish.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • She
  • Grandpa
  • Pissed Off

• Coming out of the Dallas game and through that Giants game, that's when things really started to pick up for us. We've had players go down and other guys had to step in, but everything kept going. We didn't miss a beat.

  

  Chuck Darby
  • Game
  • Players
  • Dallas

• Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Evil
  • Train
  • Crowded

• When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

  

  Basil O'Connor
  • War
  • Giants
  • Pygmies

• 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
  • Responsibility
  • Scene
  • Roles

• Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Trying
  • Equal
  • Dwarves

• I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying to win games for the Giants.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Trying
  • Games
  • Teammates

• We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

  

  Bernard of Chartres
  • Giants
  • Shoulders
  • Dwarfs

• Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".

  

  Iain Banks
  • World
  • God
  • Book

• Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Truths
  • Glasses
  • Giants

• What's important on a comedy show, or any show, is that some stories have to go somewhere. There have to be ends to the beginnings and middles you create. But sometimes it's like a way station on the highway, then the actual thing doesn't have to be this giant, climactic, life-changing, game-changing thing.

  

  Michael Schur
  • Comedy
  • Sometimes
  • Highways

• Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!

  

  Carolyn Kizer
  • Brain
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• I'm surfing the giant life wave.

  

  William Shatner
  • Surfing
  • Wave
  • Giants

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