Quotes About Grand

Las Vegas] is the American Vatican for vice, requiring grand ritual and show for pilgrims dressed like six year olds.

A hippie is like a cockroach. So are the beatniks. So are the Chicanos. We're all around, Judge. And judges do not pick us to serve on Grand Juries

Uh, Darius, I'm thinking that we really need to change clothes before we make a grand entrance in the middle of the cafeteria, or even my dorm. I mean, you're more than a little bloody, and i'm wearing what looks like a green trashbag. We're not exactly inconspicuous.

One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas.

Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a Death of a Thousand Cuts. In other words one grand act is not occuring but a multitude of small expressions on the part of individuals, both slowly and swiftly taking the place of heirarchy and history.

The Romanovian method becomes one of appointing adventurer after incompetent after nonentity to grand offices of state. The liberals and the sharper-witted right grow ever more apoplectic.

Solutions-focused therapists learn to focus their patients on the first hints of the miracle—"What's the first small sign you'd see that would make you think the problem was gone"—because they want to avoid answers that are overly grand and unattainable:

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us on this grand and auspicious day.

A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be in Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.

And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush - the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.

The Revolution was a grand thing!" continued Monsieur Pierre, betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind.

Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'.

It didn't feel like an exalted business—there was nothing grand about it. It hadn't felt noble and righteous, it felt rough and ugly and bloody and cruel. It was what was necessary, that was all.

When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

It was more of a castle than a house. It loomed over them, immense and massive, three stories high.

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.

My dream is to sing at the Grand Ole Opry.

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

Greetings, Queen of the RainWings!" Starflight said grandly. He swept his wings out and bowed low. "Ooooo," the queen said again. "We have come to you despite great peril, in a time of crisis, to throw ourselves upon your merciful —" "We need your help," Tsunami said.

In the grand scheme of a trillion planets in the universe we're just not that damn important anyway. And humans are rotten to the core.

How strange. Humans always seem so much in control. Is it just a grand act, to fool both others and themselves?

To look at this country is grand; to travel in it, is Hell,