The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
John Wesley Powell

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
Murray Walker

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.
Patty Hearst

There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels.
Honor Blackman

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.
Gaylord Perry

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
Kevin J. Anderson

Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.
Ramman Kenoun

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
Jane Taylor

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.
Junichiro Koizumi

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
Isaac Disraeli

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfven

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.
Jennifer Capriati

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.
Marian Burros

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.
Tracy Austin

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.
Guy Laliberte

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton