Grandiose Quotes

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

— Laura Owens

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

— Werner Herzog

“I grow grandiose, which is a good sign I should become prosaic.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Robert Benchley

I'm grandiose because I live a grandiose life.

— Charlie Sheen

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

— Charlie Sheen

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

— Sue Monk Kidd

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

— Charles Bukowski

[People] assume that there must be something to [Donald Trump] grandiose self-presentation, because who could be a con man on that big…

— Michelle Goldberg

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

— Thomas Steven Molnar

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

— Yanni

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

— Lukas Foss

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

— C. L. R. James

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

— Peter Drucker

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply…

— Robert Dallek

Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use,…

— Liz Phair

Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious…

— Buzz Aldrin

Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when…

— Clive Barker

With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He…

— Helen Mirren

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart…

— Stefan Zweig

The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not…

— Tamaryn

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping…

— Cate Blanchett

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the…

— Ray Bradbury

Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas…

— Douglas Brinkley

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was…

— Stephen Ambrose

I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration.…

— Gordon Lightfoot

Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward…

— Robert D. Hare

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

— Lewis Gordon Pugh

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

— Anonymous

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

— William Merritt Chase

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— Florence Welch

I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

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

— Cathy Guisewite

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice…

— Cristela Alonzo

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

— Cate Blanchett

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it…

— Raymond Pettibon