Famous quotes containing the words oriental and/or giant:
“The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)