“She made a great deal of money in her time and she spent it lavishly. Speaking of herself and her colleagues at the Metropolitan she said: "We were a race of giants." Quite true, and in case you don't know it, being a giant is a very expensive business. The cost of food and drink, not merely for oneself but for one's fellow-giants and one's scores of attendant gnomes, is a very considerable item. And the cost of jewels for a female giant is really fabulous.”
"Emma Calvé" (1942).
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“The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,
He had one eye in the middle of his forehead.”
"Adventures of Isabel" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/
Speech (August 1940), quoted in Pavlos Giannelia, 'France Returns to the Soil', Land and Freedom, Vol. XLI, No. 1, January-February 1941, p. 23 and Eugen Weber, 'France', in Hans Rogger and Eugen Weber (eds.), The European Right: A Historical Profile (University of California Press, 1966), p. 113.
“Focus on giants - you stumble.
Focus on God - Giants tumble.”
Source: Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/10/nigeria-61-eie-11-light-hope-power-and-voice-opinion/ Speaking about Nigeria (October 18 2021 )
“Who can wrestle against Sleep? — Yet is that giant very gentleness.”
Of Beauty.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)
