Top 1200 Grand Canyon Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

If you get into the main draw of a Grand Slam, then you've made your mark and proved that's where you belong.

You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced

Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.

Obviously, to win title, go in Grand Slam semi-final, is always super positive and good.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

As leaders, our job is to engage people so that they will want to participate in this grand experience in self governance.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.

I really believe that I can be the No 1, but for that to happen, I probably need to win a couple of grand slams, and they are not going to fall from the sky.

'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

I don't like writing grand battles and I find it tiresome to research weapons development and military strategy.

It used to be you would need a couple grand to make a record at a studio. Now, you can do it on freaking GarageBand.

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.

I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan.

It's really amazing. Novak, Rafa, Roger, they win couple times a year in a row all the grand slams.

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

'Chasing Fire' is about fighting for something that's already over. It's the beginning of the end. It's desperation. It's grand. But it's hopeless.

Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag.

Delivering the 'Grand Rapids Press' taught me responsibility, accountability, and all the principles of the rewards of hard work.

A major change is afoot as we combine both WPZ and Access into the large scale natural gas infrastructure MLP. And the team here at WPZ is very energized right now as we're on the verge of a major $1 billion boost in our annual cash flows that we expect to come from three major projects Geismar, Gulfstar and the Keathley Canyon Connector all of which have reached the commissioning stage here in the fourth quarter.

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

My folks bought a baby grand piano and that's where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on the stereo.

Anything I've asked of MGM Grand, they've done for me in a heartbeat. They're all about making entertainers and athletes happy.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

I got to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, which is just so amazing. That stage is iconic; it was awesome being on it.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched “RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03,” a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

I feel like you could watch 'Grand Budapest' without sound, and it would still be funny.

If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

Wherever I'm at, if I'm playing well I can put myself into a position to win any tournament, including grand slams.

I think 2017 is going to be the year of the grand return of the nation-state, the control of borders and currencies.

It should be a small intimate wedding not like a big grand show happening. You can interact with all your guests.