I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that? — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. — Victor Hugo 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
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality. — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things. — Christo 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
So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality. — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice… — Cristela Alonzo Copy Share Image
Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it. — Cate Blanchett 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
“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
Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something… — Markus Wolf 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
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
He's got lots of money and clearly has grandiose schemes, seeing himself as an important global player. There is a reality to… — Michael Shifter 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
The goal...is not to change your desires and wishes but to persuade you to stop demanding that you absolutely must have what… — Albert Ellis 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
A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration.… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be. — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible. — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea — Florence Welch 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
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen 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
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
