Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation. — C. L. R. James 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
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished. — William Merritt Chase 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
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
The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports. — Yanni 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
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
When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small? — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. — Charles Bukowski 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
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
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 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