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Giant Quotes (page 9)

our power of thin-slicing and snap judgment are extraordinary. but even the giant computer in our unconscious need a moment to do its work. Malcolm Gladwell
Wow ? said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being thrown into a storm-tossed, fathoms-deep lake, and pushed out of it again by a giant sea monster. J. K. Rowling
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride. Virginia Woolf
Love can do all but raise the Dead. I doubt if even that. From such a giant were withheld. Were flesh equivalent. But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze. And so abets the shining Fleet. Till it is out of gaze. Emily Dickinson
And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and... Erica Jong
I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility. Elizabeth Bowen
Didn’t you hear what they said about my sister? But you don’t give a rat’s fart, do you, it’s only the Forbidden Forest, Harry I’ve-Faced-Worse Potter doesn’t care what happens to her in here — well, I do, all right, giant spiders and mental stuff — J. K. Rowling
Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath. J. R. R. Tolkien
George R. R. Martin quote: "I think he is a giant among us, here at the end of the world."
I think he is a giant among us, here at the end of the world. George R. R. Martin
Bob Dylan quote: "In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes..."
In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed. Bob Dylan
The mind speaks not more sweetly to the giant Oaks than to the least of all blades of grass, And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving Khalil Gibran
Anais Nin quote: "If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still..."
If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child. Anais Nin
Alan Watts quote: "The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at..."
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years. Alan Watts
Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby. Elizabeth Gilbert
Dusk, suggesting the almost imperceptible posession of giant trees, settled with a purple haze about the cane. I felt strange, as I always do in Georgia, particularly at dusk. I felt that things unseen to men were tangibly immediate. It would not have surprised me had I had a vision. Jean Toomer

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