#colossal

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#essence #improbability #life #scale #statistical

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it. ↗

— Paul Darrow

#because #carefully #colossal #disappointment #every

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#colossal #earliest #enters #gates #had

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#artists #colossal #creative #extraordinary #great

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#colossal #get #having #these #titles

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. ↗

— James Buchan

#also #colossal #converted #else #europe

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#america #cannot #colossal #course #denied

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time. ↗

— David Eagleman

#colossal #find #happening #our #them

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me. ↗

— John Fowles

#best #colossal #english #forgave #i

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#language #never #no respect #people #polite