Vegas is the best place to go out. You can't stay more than two nights, but everything is so big and grand.
At places like Chelsea, often the garden displays are so big and grand that you'd never be able to have them at home.
I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
To me, there are only a few tournaments that are important. The Grand Slams, Davis Cup, the Swedish Open; that's about it.
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.
I have a lot of respect for those movies, like the old 'King Kong,' which create a grand world with the tricks.
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.
The United States... is the greatest nation on Earth, and I believe there are things that make us special - and one is this grand democratic experiment.
Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.
I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.
I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
I've had dreams - there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my first year of Grand Prix.
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.
Bones smiled. “Oh, grand. Going to make me beat the truth out of you? My favorite way to work.
The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.
In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.
What I like about Kannada cinema is that the stories are realistic, but told in grand, larger-than-life fashion.
Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.
In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.
I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.
I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life.
That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.
An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.
Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation.
I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.
When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.
By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.
I’m three legs toward completing the career Grand Slam at 25. So, I’m feeling pretty good right now.
The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.
If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians.
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
I prefer the Grand Slam than the No. 1, but still, to get No. 1, not many players did that, so it's going to be very important for me.
I'm pretty realistic. I cannot wish to be Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova because they won, like, a hundred Grand Slams.
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House.
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.
There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded.
It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.
Winning the second grand slam, it was a bit different. I don't have anything to prove anymore. I am at the top: number one.
The United States of America - once great, grand and free - is on the path to becoming just another country.
Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
I'm just a hometown boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan - where I still live - who is trying do what he feels that he's been called to do.
I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.
I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.
You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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