“He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.”
On Orson Welles, as quoted in The New York Times (11 October 1985)
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French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager … 1889–1963Related quotes
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), The Robe of Christ
“The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.”
The Friend; A Series of Essays (1812), No. 15 (30 November 1809), p. 228
Cf. Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676): "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants".
"In Conversation: Brian Aldiss & James Blish" in Cypher (October 1973); republished in The Tale That Wags the God (1987) by James Blish
“Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.”
Source: The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
Pillars of Globalization, p. 13 (2006)
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Pantagruel (1532), Chapter 29.
Context: Loupgarou was come with all his giants, who, seeing Pantagruel in a manner alone, was carried away with temerity and presumption, for hopes that he had to kill the good man. Whereupon he said to his companions the giants, You wenchers of the low country, by Mahoom, if any of you undertake to fight against these men here, I will put you cruelly to death. It is my will, that you let me fight single. In the meantime you shall have good sport to look upon us.
