Catch Phrases
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“I may be small, but I screw up big because I'm standing on the shoulders of GIANTS.”
This evokes the statement by Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Source: Paris France (1940), p. 28
recalled by Carver Mead in Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism (2002), p. xix
Video game commentary, Calm Time (November 23, 2013)
“It's all in your head — you just have no idea how big your head is.”
Source: The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford (2001), Chapter 8
The Observer, 2013; [Brandon Stanton's New York stories, The Observer, http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/nov/03/brandon-stanton-humans-of-new-york-pictures, Corinne Jones, 3 November 2013, 2013-11-09]
“But, sure, the sky is big, I said;
Miles and miles above my head”
"Renascence" (1912), st. 3 Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
Context: But, sure, the sky is big, I said;
Miles and miles above my head;
So here upon my back I'll lie
And look my fill into the sky.
And so I looked, and, after all,
The sky was not so very tall.
The sky, I said, must somewhere stop,
And — sure enough! — I see the top!
The sky, I thought, is not so grand;
I 'most could touch it with my hand!
And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
