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I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

Ian Mcewan

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Ian Mcewan
British - Novelist
Born: June 21, 1948

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

Ian Mcewan

When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung logo. I see a giant Microsoft Windows logo. And those are stores within a store.

Walt Mossberg

Universe is a giant wave and mankind needs a giant breakwater: The science! It is the best jetty we ever have!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Once you start putting in political subtext, it does create intellectually challenging science-fiction, but with 'Pacific Rim,' I always thought it would be a shame if kids couldn't go see this movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters because it seemed to have a political point of view.

Travis Beacham

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

Max de Pree

So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.

Danny DeVito

One of my earliest memories was watching Ken Patera and Big John Studd cut Andre The Giant's hair. That was the first thing that had a serious effect on me emotionally. I was just moping around the house all day. I couldn't believe they did this to Andre The Giant.

Christian Cage

There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.

Frederick Schiller Faust

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our country has the potential not just to be the giant of Africa but a major economic giant in the world.

Yemi Osinbajo

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

Robert Burton

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

William Shakespeare

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

George Lucas

A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse.

Dana Gould

If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he who in our daily sight Seems but a figure mean and small, Outlined in Fame's illusive light, May stalk, a silhouette sublime, Across the canvas of his time.

John Townsend Trowbridge

And in the fountain squatted a giant crab. I’m not talking ‘giant’ like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I’m talking ‘giant’ like bigger than the fountain.

Rick Riordan

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