Grand Quotes

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Bryant H. McGill

Small, Stand, Meaningful

When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.
Brigitte Bardot

Life, Love, Time

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
Benny Hill

Upright, Pianos

I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.
Josh Charles

Fun, Try, Thoughtful

To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.
Tiger Woods

Win, Different, Same

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

Poetry, Waiting, Book

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
Billy Corgan

Show, Suspicious, Mighty

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.
David Byrne

Everyday, Deal, Relevant

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
Edward Abbey

Done, Rather, Inner

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
Liam Neeson

Play, Ambition, Desire

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Life, Great, Business

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
Bono

Marriage, Seriously, Knew

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.
Maria Sharapova

Happy, Win, Trying

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.
John Podhoretz

Life, Religion, Else

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
Irving Babbitt

Far, Times, Style

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Life, Live, Long

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Great, Why, Try

In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide.
Paula Deen

Forward, True, Game

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.
Katherine Heigl

Big, Gestures, Generally

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Truth, May, Principles

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Franz Liszt

Destiny, Artist, Mournful

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.
Sebastian Bach

Rock, Start, Point

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.
Murray Walker

Happens, Racing, Prix

Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
Venus Williams

Nice, Yourself, Hard

I know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most Grand Slams and be remembered in this world. I certainly don't have to win little tournaments here, there and everywhere, I don't have to win at all. Although I do want to.
Venus Williams

Important, Win, Here

One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
Zakk Wylde

Wife, Bad, Done

The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
Vin Diesel

Amazing, Important, Game

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
Tracey Ullman

Life, Ambition, Plan

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.
Evan Davis

Rather, Late, Perhaps

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.
Nicolas Cage

Great, Movies, Wanted

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