Top 188 Monumental Quotes & Sayings

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book.

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

Monumental is not a matter of size.

I've seen 'Babel' four times. And each time I realize anew what a monumental project that had been for me.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

When you're at an Olympic Games watching someone you've known for a long while and he or she has done something, even if it's only coming in the top 50, then you have a monumental night.

I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possible.

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

We overhype everything. We create monumental myths. There are people who still believe that Brandi Chastain and the U.S. women's World Cup team pulled off the equivalent of the Miracle on Ice.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

I think if it's not monumental, there's no point.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

My mind's monumental, my pen is penetration That produce words that bleed on the pad like menstruation

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

The #MeToo campaign is monumental. It is giving a voice to so many too scared to speak out before.

There is very little doubt, in my mind, that what the next monumental achievement of humanity will be the first landing by an Earthling, a human being, on the planet Mars.

When I am going through something monumental or difficult in my life it is hard to look at it as it is because it is too much.

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

The entire world is talking about a leadership crisis in India. There is monumental corruption. Investigations into cases of corruption are politically calibrated.

Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.

You can never criticize a monumental musician like Jon Lord or Richie Blackmore, or the part they played in the group, but life goes on.

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

I made some monumental mistakes with Barcelona.

Breaking the back of the Chicago machine, it's quite monumental.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

To reach the heights of a truly global sport, in a sport as difficult as this, is a monumental achievement.

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

At home, we have begun the monumental task of returning the government back to the people on a scale not seen in many, many years.

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palins ignorance of public affairs is monumental.