Top 115 Grandiose Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

At the risk of sounding grandiose, I will say that, to me, rock 'n' roll is sacred.

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

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

Oh, we don't have a grandiose marketing plan. We sell products that work, that we like.

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.

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.

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

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

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.

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe.

I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don’t.

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

I guess I don't have a grandiose view of the world in general, and I never believe it when someone else has a grandiose moment.

Not to get too grandiose about it, but I really believe I'm saying things a lot of Americans want someone to say.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it's important I can look in the mirror, strip away the disguise and be comfortable with who stares back.

My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that people want to read them.

I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well to begin by being happy. Then reverie plays out its veritable destiny; it becomes poetic reverie and by it, in it, everything becomes beautiful. If the dreamer had "the gift" he would turn his reverie into a work. And this work would be grandiose since the dreamed world is automatically grandiose.

I don't make grandiose, prophetic statements in my songs.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

I was attacked the other night for being grandiose. I would just want you to note: Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was grandiose. The Wright Brothers standing at Kitty Hawk were grandiose. John F. Kennedy was grandiose. I accept the charge that I am grandiose and that Americans are instinctively grandiose.

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

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.

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

I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.