Grand Quotes - page 5

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation. (Orison Swett Marden)
The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent. View quote
Rick Riordan
Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. View quote
Garth Stein
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. View quote
Ziggy Marley
Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different. View quote
Niki Lauda
I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A. View quote
Evan Peters
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. (David Halberstam)
Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon. View quote
Andy Van Slyke
Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. View quote
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. View quote
Augustus Hare
It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season. View quote
Agnieszka Radwanska
Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana. View quote
Billy Tauzin
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people. View quote
Bat for Lashes
And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard. View quote
Chantal Kreviazuk
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. View quote
Charles Keating, Jr.
Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book! (Claudia Christian)
Being a father can unreason your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. Its sad that childrens open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum. View quote
Clyde Edgerton
Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools. View quote
Craig Charles
I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras. View quote
Cassandra Peterson
And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience. View quote
Davy Jones