“I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Chasing Fire
“I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Chasing Fire
George Raymond Richard Martin (1948) American writer, screenwriter and television producer
At Tuscon 43 http://dndjourneyofthefifthedition.podbean.com/e/tuscon-43-an-hour-with-george-r-r-martin/ (2016)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) English poet, diarist and memoirist
"Counter-Attack"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)
Context: Mute in the clamour of shells he watched them burst
Spouting dark earth and wire with gusts from hell,
While posturing giants dissolved in drifts of smoke.
He crouched and flinched, dizzy with galloping fear,
Sick for escape,— loathing the strangled horror
And butchered, frantic gestures of the dead.
“The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
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".
“Give me a half-tanker of iron, and I'll give you an ice-age.”
A new iron age, or a ferric fantasy, US JGOFS News, pp. 5, 11.
Frank Crane (1861–1928) American Presbyterian minister
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
"Reflections and Anecdotes", nr. 264 (Douglas Parmée translation)
“You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? … God made this world, but didn't complete it.”
Mario Cuomo (1932–2015) American politician, Governor of New York
As quoted in "Analysis : Tragedies of nature, terror leave vulnerable feeling" by Charles Passy, in The Palm Beach Post (12 September 2005) http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbccentral/content/local_news/epaper/2005/09/12/m1a_vulnerability_0912.html