Grandiose Quotes

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I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame… — Cate Blanchett
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. — Charles Bukowski
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like… — Francois Magendie
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by… — Thomas Sowell
It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. — Eric Hoffer
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen
All right, New York City! Welcome to Madison... Square... Jericho! And after tonight, when I become the true, undisputed Intercontinental champion, the Jerichoholics of the… — Chris Jericho
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor. — Werner Herzog
I was attacked the other night for being grandiose. I would just want you to note: Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was grandiose. The Wright… — Newt Gingrich
These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having power over them.… — David Emerald Womeldorff
My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many… — Liz Phair
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder. — Thomas Steven Molnar
He's got lots of money and clearly has grandiose schemes, seeing himself as an important global player. There is a reality to it. Oil is… — Michael Shifter
Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads… — Susan Sontag
I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work… — Muhammad Yunus
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat… — Stefan Zweig
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished. — William Merritt Chase
For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? Itâ€™s such a funny, grandiose idea — Florence Welch
The grandiose plans of what Macintosh was gonna be was just so far out of whack with the truth of what the product was doing.… — Chris Espinosa

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