Quotes of: Grandiose Keyword

Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity ca...

Fear of Fifty

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

Christo

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Salvador Dali

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

Yanni

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

James Altucher

I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.

The Robots of Dawn

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

Robert Benchley

Christmas is God saving mankind from the folly of mankind’s grandiose sense of greatness.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Victor Hugo

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

Colin Farrell

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

C. L. R. James

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Sigmund Freud

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

Lukas Foss

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

Cristela Alonzo

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

Crome Yellow

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

George Hickenlooper

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

Florence Welch

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Comte de Lautreamont

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.

Eating People is Wrong