Grand Quotes

Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize.

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.

I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.

I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived.

All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.

I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.

Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.'

Beijing's Olympics were very grand - they were trying to throw a party for the world, but the hosts didn't enjoy it. The government didn't care about people's feelings because it was trying to create an image.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.

One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

Rufus? He's a grand kisser, and he's dead sexy.

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.