Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans,… — Laurent Fabius Copy Share Image
The grandiose plans of what Macintosh was gonna be was just so far out of whack with the truth of what the… — Chris Espinosa Copy Share Image
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I was attacked the other night for being grandiose. I would just want you to note: Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John's first American album, 'Elton John,' was that the production was too grandiose.… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
That's when I began drinking coffee. I was hung up on every little thing. I loved Paris, and felt straightaway at home.… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it's important… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fantasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others… — Francois Magendie Copy Share Image
On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I think that doing comedy and playing Dwight is a service. Not to get grandiose about it, but I have a talent… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things. — Christo Copy Share Image
A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be. — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality. — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I guess I don't have a grandiose view of the world in general, and I never believe it when someone else has… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's… — Embeth Davidtz Copy Share Image
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