Top 1200 Grand Canyon Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.

All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big.

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.

When I play 'Grand Theft Auto,' I'm such a nerdy little law abider because I've always had this active imagination in which I sympathize and empathize with things.

The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of rock and heat, sand dunes and quicksand, cactus, thornbrush, scorpion, rattlesnake, and agaraphobic distances. To those who see our land in that manner, the best reply is, yes, you are right, it is a dangerous and terrible place. Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun. Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently.

The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.

When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

I don't work for a sports network, per se. I'm on once a week for the NBA and then we only do a handful of golf events - the PGA, the British and the Grand Slam.

Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

My dream was always to win a grand slam, and my second dream was to be No. 1.

The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.

Long-term, I want to capture the WWE championship. I want to be a grand slam champion.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

I've never had a grand plan. I've only just tried to keep open to many different possibilities, have fun and work with people who are passionate about what they do.

I want to be a top-10 player and I want to win a Grand Slam tournament.

I want to have better results at the Grand Slams, and of course, one day I want to be No. 1 in the world.

I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal.

President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything of significance through Congress.

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life.

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world.

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

I won my second Grand Slam in one year. That is the best year in my career.

Hopefully I can win grand slams in the future but until then I have to work very, very hard.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

My staff hosts mobile office hours to serve constituents throughout the district in addition to our permanent offices in Durango, Pueblo and Grand Junction.

When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.

Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; it is designed to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers.

Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all.

My dream was always, when I was a little girl, to be number one and to win grand slams as the number one.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

If you want to win a Grand Slam, when you dream, you say, 'I want Serena in the final.'

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.

One Thanksgiving weekend, I had a lost weekend at a friend's place with 'Grand Theft Auto.'

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.

I feel this is a family here, so kinda regardless of whatever happens in your life, you always can come home to the Grand Ole Opry, thank God.

The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.

Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

As far as myself, I want to see myself hold a Grand Slam, be at the top of the game.

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life