Giants Quotes - Page 3

• I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

  Bing Crosby

  Music, Country, Thinking

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• War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

  Ernie Pyle

  War, Men, Routine

  Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.117, U of Nebraska Press

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• The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

  Bill Rodgers

  Sports, New York, Bombs

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• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  Oliver Stone

  World, May, Lizards

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• I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

  Joss Whedon

  Ego, Singing, Kevin

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user

  Pat Sajak

  Television, Wheels, Heavy

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• All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Yankees, Wind

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• But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

  Wayne Newton

  Men, My Friends, Laughed

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• The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player.

  Ron Fairly

  Player, Thinking, Atlanta

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• TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

  Norman Lear

  People, Salary, Pay

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Military, Years, Europe

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• Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

  Clive James

  Dancing, Nails, Knocking

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Ohio, Monsters

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Peace, Clever, War

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 14 Mar. 1955

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• 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

  Steps, Walks, Our Lives

  Beth Moore (2009). “Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds”, p.22, B&H Publishing Group

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• If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.

  Stephen Colbert

  Government, Surveillance, Doing Nothing

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013

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• It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Race, Touching

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.108, The Floating Press

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• I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

  Greg Egan

  Artist, Years, Albums

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• We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

  Ted Turner

  Media, Needs, Pieces

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• I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants

  Pat Sajak

  Yankees, Drug, Being Free

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• The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

  Marc Bloch

  Lying, History, Scent

  Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.22, Manchester University Press

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• The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

  Alvin Dark

  Shut Up, Motto, Deals

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• We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

  David Suzuki

  Nature, Wall, Car

  "Green giants: the eco power list" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

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• Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

  Mark Hamill

  Stars, War, Fruit Salad

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Car, Community, Mercury

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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