Giant Quotations | Page 5

I guess we can all conclude we've lost a giant in the sense of the contribution he made to our state, ... He was a philosopher, a guide, a pilot, a poet, a visionary. ... His contribution is evident when every Alaskan receives a Permanent Fund dividend.

If there was a giant sucking sound a few years ago, the sound is now a collective sigh of relief.

Being ranked is important for recruiting and credibility and later on when they pick teams in March, the committee tends to look at that as some sort of barometer. It's a sleeping giant here. It's been down since Guy Lewis retired in 1986, but it's a tradition-rich school with five Final Fours and banners all over the place.

Because of inordinate bargaining power, giant health plans have introduced an all-or-nothing mentality, which is unfair to physicians,

Chained in the market-place he stood,A man of giant frame,Amid the gathering multitudeThat shrunk to hear his name.

Charlotte Church is our woman of the year simply because she is larger than life. She is a great singer, a tabloid giant and enjoys life to the full.

By acquiring Costa Rican gaming operations, giant European firms now have a platform from which to launch attacks on federal, state and local gambling restrictions in an effort to secure an even greater share of the diverse and lucrativeÊU.S. gambling market. This is a threat that was brought to the attention of all three Utah congressmen.

George Bush has just taken a giant 30-year step backwards in terms of fuel economy for vehicles. He's actually loosened up the rules under the guise of tightening them. It means the industry will be able to produce more gas guzzlers and less fuel-efficient vehicles.

If he (Schilling) goes to Washington that will be a giant positive for them in many different ways.

I felt this was a story that had not been told, ... I just needed somebody to believe as strongly as I did, and I found a giant corporation that did, which is the best person of all!

I draft on the computer. I have a really giant screen that attaches to my laptop, and then I have a humongous digital drawing tablet called a Cintiq. It sits at all different angles, and it's so big that it would take two people to move it.

I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

He's got a giant upside. He's got all the skill in the world. He's got the power, the will. He's just got to channel it in the right direction. He's a little raw systems-wise. I think he'll be one of the strongest defensemen in the league next year. The sky's the limit.

I cannot believe that I have won a giant slalom.

Her case was a giant step forward for eugenics, a worldwide 'race hygiene' movement that led into the Holocaust.

You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.

The main thing is to think strategically about what will engage your readers. Trust me when I tell you that few people are eager to read a story whose opening lines sound like a dissertation on giant bugs.

The juggernaut that is steampunk, like Dr. Loveless's giant mechanical spider in the 1999 film version of 'The Wild, Wild West,' seems capable of crushing all naysayers.

The initial reaction is being surprised and pleased. We had feared that this was another giant step down the coast by this organism.

These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

All I want to be sure of is that viewers understood it was a giant self-parody. If anyone took it seriously, they really need to get a life.

The great depression left a mark on all of the civilized world. It was a defining moment like a giant earthquake that reminds us of how little control we have over human destiny -- despite our technology and innovation.

The images are wonderful. We're learning a great deal about how to best acquire and process these giant images from our very complicated camera.

a giant of a man who helped shape the character of the West.

A giant oak in the forest of public service has fallen,

A giant has passed away. It leaves a huge void in all of baseball.

a giant corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being.

You've got three different parties here -- GM, Delphi and the UAW -- trying to figure out what GM's obligation is, ... GM could be on the hook for a lot of those UAW workers, but it's not completely clear. It's just a giant bowl of spaghetti right now.

The General Plan, particularly in this end of the county, is a mess. I am perplexed that we are spending $30,000 for a study to tell us what we already know. We need to take a giant leap soon, or the infrastructure will not be able to deal with what is going on here.

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

The giant has awoken. And it's a friendly giant, it's a giant that loves the United States.

The difference between a man and a boy is, a boy wants to grow up to be a fireman, but a man wants to grow up to be a giant monster fireman.

America was not made the industrial giant of the world by the robber barons alone, ... It was made the industrial giant of the world by competition, by encouraging new developments, by encouraging young entrepreneurs to break into the market. It's the best system I've seen so far.

The members of Congress who have been involved with this legislation deserve the gratitude of U.S. businesses engaged in international commerce. This bill is a giant step forward in the effort to deregulate ocean liner shipping.

Four years ago we said we would invigorate our economy by giving people greater freedom and incentives to take risks and letting them keep more of what they earned. We did what we promised, and a great industrial giant is reborn.

I think as the century closes draws to a close and we look back on public figures, ... we realize what a giant Eleanor Roosevelt was.

When my car broke down, I realized the engine was nothing more than a giant jigsaw puzzle.

Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, /where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!