Quotes of Jumbo - somelinesforyou

“ O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Isaac Newton

“ If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ Scientists are complaining that the new Dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing? ”

- Jay Leno

“ By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realization of this vision. It is tragic that he did not live to see it fulfilled. ”

- Kofi Annan

“ The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant. ”

- George Martin

“ Indifference is the invisible giant of the world. ”

- Ouida

“ The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank. ”

- Jonathan Raban

“ Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. ”

- George Orwell

“ The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Fling but a stone, the giant dies. ”

- Matthew

“ It is our intention to request live witnesses. We think that's the highest and best evidence, and that will be our firm request. ”

- Henry Hyde

“ This is a first giant step,... It is the future, as far as we are concerned. ”

- Robert Iger

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

- joss whedon

“ A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Oh, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Pray look better, Sir… those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Condoms should be marketed in three sizes, jumbo, colossal, and super-colossal - so men don't have to go in and ask for the small. ”

- Barbara Seaman

“ The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. ”

- Jim Samuels

“ The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it. ”

- John Evans

“ A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two. ”

- George Herbert

“ How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Norman Mailer

“ If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. ”

- Harold Hal Abelson

“ America is a mistake, a giant mistake. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ There is no indication that there was any certainty about when this will happen. And to me it sounds like a bunch of bureaucratic mumbo jumbo about the process that they have in that country [Japan}. ”

- John Thune

“ By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen. ”

- Marvin Minsky

“ Who's kidding whom? What's the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Quart and full quart? Two-ounce and big two-ounce? What does Extra Long mean? What's a tall 24-inches? And what busy shopper can tell? ”

- Marya Mannes

“ We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo… excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments. ”

- Thomas J. Peters
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