#giant

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. ↗

— David Lynch

#francis #francis bacon #giant #him #i

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#act #already #decide #decided #decision

I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#gave #giant #great #i #japan

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#hip #jungle #primitive #sophistication #wise

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 #could #drive #everybody

Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#arguing #art #arts #conversely #discoveries

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave. ↗

— John Milius

#authenticity #back #behave #certain #cleopatra

I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something. ↗

— Mark Morris

#bars #bigger #build #call #charge

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet. ↗

— Carry Nation

#certainly #ever #felt #five #giant

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ↗

— Isaac Newton

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