A Quote by Carl Sandburg

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
American - Poet
January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967

We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.

Salman Rushdie

Condoms should be marked in 3 sizes: jumbo, colossal and super colossal, so that men do not have to go in and ask for the small.

Barbara Seaman

... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.

Adrienne Rich

I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'

Christopher Lee

Standing upright is not a talent because a brainless wooden beam can stand upright too! The important thing is to be flexible!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

The champagne tastes the same if you're sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better.

Anouska Hempel

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Marcus Aurelius

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

Marcus Aurelius

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.

Stefan Heym

There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.

Spencer W. Kimball

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

David Eagleman

My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.

T. J. Miller

'Upright Citizens Brigade' was a huge influence on us. And growing up we never missed 'Saturday Night Live.'

Sal Vulcano

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

Edwin H Friedman

I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there's a million other ways I'd rather waste my time.