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

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg

We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.
Jackie Stewart

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

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence Day

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
Ben Bradlee

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
Charles Keating

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
Donald Judd

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
Alfred de Vigny