#giant

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

#albums #anything #artists #beck #giants

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

#big #break #companies #giants #growing

This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#anything #around #cheaply #country #fake

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

— Joss Whedon

#costner #ego #giant #i #kevin

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense. ↗

— Shaun White

#feet #giant #intense #launching #off

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

#done #fear #fill #giant #him

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#around #belongs #blame #bubble #causing

When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#days #dizzying #experimental #feel #female

A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#clown #else #gave #giant #his