Top 174 Colossal Quotes & Sayings

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

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

If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.

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

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

[On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.

Spirituality is a growth industry. And nothing illustrates that better than the burgeoning crop of colossal sanctuaries sprouting up in suburbs across the land.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

The rise of ISIS is a result of - Obama and Clinton making a decision to pull our troops out without preparing Iraq is a colossal mistake.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

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.

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

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

Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.

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

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.

China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in world poverty.

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

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

The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two words: The Ladies.

All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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

So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

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

One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.

The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue!

You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.

Drafting local police into Trump's immigration crackdown undermines public safety and is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

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.

A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order.

The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil.

My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.

The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.