America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. Sigmund Freud
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. Victor Hugo
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. Soren Kierkegaard
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski
Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh. Jerry Saltz
