Grandiose Quotes

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

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

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

Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.

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

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.

A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.

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

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

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.

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

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don’t.

That's when I began drinking coffee. I was hung up on every little thing. I loved Paris, and felt straightaway at home. Not to be grandiose, but it seemed like all the city had been waiting for me.

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

[People] assume that there must be something to [Donald Trump] grandiose self-presentation, because who could be a con man on that big of a scale?

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

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