Quotes About Colossal

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

Sri Chinmoy

#2. I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.

Sylvia Plath

#3. Jeffrey Murdock is a colossal turd."
"Can I stitch that on a sampler and put it on Etsy?"
"Sure.

Cecilia London

#4. I scarcely ever," he said, with an unconscious and colossal arrogance, "hear of anything on the face of the earth that I do not understand at once, without going to see it." And he led the way out into the purple night.
The Club of Queer Trades

G.K. Chesterton

#5. The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.

Karl Marx

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

Claes Oldenburg

#7. Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

Michael Eric Dyson

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

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#9. 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.

Dana Gould

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

Susan Cain

#11. What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake.

Carol Tavris

#12. The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien.

Albert J. Nock

#13. The mission, he thought, probably failed because of a series of logical, reasonable, carefully considered decisions, each of which seemed like a good idea at the time. Like most colossal disasters.

Mary Doria Russell

#14. When someone says "just saying" what they really mean is, "You would be a colossal idiot to not take my advice." (on Facebook)

Stephen Altrogge

#15. He was colossal (apparently they felt behemoth was easier to spell).

Emily Devenport

#16. 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.

Claes Oldenburg

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

#18. 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.

Victor Hugo

#19. A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

James Rozoff

#20. All the dizzy and colossal things conceded depend upon one small thing withheld. All the wild and whirling things that are let loose depend upon one thing that is forbidden.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. 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.

Susan Jeffers

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

Friedrich Schiller

#23. There are now very few significant interludes of human existence (with the colossal exception of sleep) that have not been penetrated and taken over as work time, consumption time, or marketing time.

Jonathan Crary

#24. I believe that the rising of the proletariat, if it ever comes in this country, will end in a colossal victory for capitalism - that capitalism, as at present and in the past, will play off one mob against another, and pick the pockets of both.

Franklin Foer

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

Bob Dylan

#26. The world was colossal, he said, we humans and our problems tiny and unimportant, no more than dust in the hands of time,

Andreas Steinhofel

#27. You have to take risks if you want to master a craft. Taking risks means screwing up. Show me someone who's never made a colossal mistake, and I'll show you someone who's never created a masterpiece. If

L.A. Witt

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

Richard Lederer

#29. Die painfully. Go to Valhalla. Gain the ability to drag rancid, colossal severed heads across a dock. Hooray.

Rick Riordan

#30. Four of the roses were on fire.
They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets
and howling colossal intimacies
from the back of their fused throats.
- XXVII. MITWELT

Anne Carson

#31. Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.

Geneen Roth

#32. 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.

Barbara Seaman

#33. It wasn't sealed - she opened the flap. Inside was a cheque for a thousand dollars. Made out to her. From Daniel. It was a colossal slap in the face.

Lesley Lokko

#34. Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.

David Amerland

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

Brent Scowcroft

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

Agnes Repplier

#37. People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.

Anthea Turner

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

Carl Sandburg

#39. Okay, understand this. If you had any idea what kind of gorgeous, sexy mess you look like right now, you'd be using it to your advantage instead of throwing such a colossal advantage away.
Aries Taylor to his heroine Jaxx Gavin in Stare Me down

Riley Murphy

#40. I do not want to miss the historic opportunity to embedd the smallest memories of seeing you grow into the colossal fabric of my life.

Harshada Pathare

#41. In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.

Carol Loomis

#42. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#43. One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

Quentin Tarantino

#44. Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

James Buchan

#45. The deceits which her spinster's sentimentality has practiced on her original good judgment are legendary and colossal; she has this way of speaking of children's hearts as if they were something holy; it is hard for a parent to know what to say.

Alice Munro

#46. 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.

Mary Catherwood

#47. The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

Emile M. Cioran

#48. Mathematics, which most of us see as the most factual of all sciences, constitutes the most colossal metaphor imaginable, and must be judged, aesthetically as well as intellectually in terms of the success of this metaphor.

Norbert Wiener

#49. This was a catastrofuck of colossal proportions.

Cora Carmack

#50. 'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.

Nancy Horan

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

Joan Aiken

#52. The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far, far away along a blue sea whose glitter was blurred by a creeping mist.

Joseph Conrad

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

Albert Einstein

#54. 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.

David Harsanyi

#55. Mitzvah" is Hebrew for "colossal pain in the ass.

Jesse Andrews

#56. Insights are everything. They play central parts in the actualization of destiny. A dangerous insights becomes a colossal executioner. Latching your fate with noble thoughts spares you a life of self-limitation.

Darmie Orem

#57. Well, where is she ? Where the colossal / Mountains of smoke stand. / That thing there amongst the fires / Is her.

Bertolt Brecht

#58. 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.

Bob Lutz

#59. Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.

Will Smith

#60. World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Ernest Hemingway,

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

Sylvia Plath

#62. There is no such thing as colossal failure. There is only colossal courage to attempt the impossible again and again until it becomes possible.

Toni Sorenson

#63. Spider rubs his eyes in a way that makes it clear that the weight of both life's experience and the immutability of youth's colossal dumbassedness is presently crushing his very soul.
Wise Young Fool

Sean Beaudoin

#64. I release Josef, who collapses to my feet, and confesses not just to all war crimes at Auschwitz but also for being responsible for the colossal mistakes New Coke and Sex and the City 2.

Jodi Picoult

#65. There will be this colossal moment in your life when you'll rampage all your mind disturbers and pin that one moment forever. Don't crave or pray for that moment though. Go out and strive hard, believe. Focus and be aware for the moment will just pass by. If you catch it, you are colossal.

Chetan M. Kumbhar

#66. [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.

Joy Adamson

#67. We face a dark time in the history of God's people ... the forces of evil seem to be gathering for a colossal assault on the work of God in the world. In the darkest hour God can still revive His people, and by the Holy Spirit breathe new vigor and power into the body of Christ.

Billy Graham

#68. And wolves of water broke from behind me. The soldiers whirled, fleeing. But my wolves were faster. I was faster as I ran with them, in the heart of the pack. Wolf after wolf roared out of the Sidra, as colossal as the one I had once killed, pouring into the streets, racing upward. I

Sarah J. Maas

#69. I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

Paul Darrow

#70. You're a fixer, Grant mused. You're also a colossal pain in the ass. The thing is, it's the pains in the ass that change the world.

Jodi Picoult

#71. Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.

John Adams

#72. If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#73. I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.

John C. Reilly

#74. 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.

Novalis

#75. Getting any movie made is just like trying to push a giant boulder up a mountain, and there's so many moving parts. Obviously, there's the creative side, and then there's the logistical side, and they're both colossal.

Ed Helms

#76. Unlike what happened after Pearl Harbor, however, the Bush administration would not order a "review of how they could have been so badly surprised" because the results would have shown "a colossal bureaucratic failure, combined with inattention and a lack of political will at the top.

Andrew P. Napolitano

#77. Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us.

Bruce Beutler

#78. A gap will yawn, achingly, day by day, it will turn into a colossal pit, an abyss without foundation, a gradual invasion of words by margins, blank and insignificant, so that all of us, to a man, will find nothing to say.

Georges Perec

#79. The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.

Peter Carey

#80. Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Mark Twain

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

Jandy Nelson

#82. I narrowed my eyes, making a colossal effort to keep them on his face and not stray down his glistening ... I slipped just once ... yes, glistening chest. Seriously?

Natasha Boyd

#83. Tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

Pauline Kael

#84. Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.

Jim Clyburn

#85. Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State's inhabitants, or subjects.

Murray N. Rothbard

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

John Fowles

#87. Colossal rigidity, whether in dinosaurs or dictatorships, has a very poor record of evolutionary survival.

Carl R. Rogers

#88. The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#89. 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.

John Caudwell

#90. Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early.

Richard Dawkins

#91. I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour!

David Berg

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#93. He, Dominix Alexander Zubiri, was in love. With a woman who gagged at the thought of sucking his dick. The universe's idea of a colossal joke.

Jianne Carlo

#94. We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

Carl Sandburg

#95. A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

Joe Abercrombie

#96. Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

Julia Sawalha

#97. The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had become legendary figures in the public imagination-vast, overshadowing behemoths whose colossal power seemed to reach everywhere.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#98. No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

John Ruskin

#99. Remember that there was at least one person who thought Einstein was a colossal dick.

Kelly Williams Brown

#100. If, instead of saying that thieves will go to prison or liars will go to hell, we could make people think that stealing is as bad as going to a funeral in a coloured tie, or lying as bad as frying a sausage on the parlour fire, we should achieve a colossal reformation.

FitzRoy James Henry Somerset