Grand Quotes
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Word Lists
See also Core English Vocabulary (G) List-
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
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In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with th...
Frederick Douglass
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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.
Oliver Stone
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[quoted in Life magazine, 9 January 1950] The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
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Speaking in grand understatment about her famous catwalk figure; "I have a bit here and a bit there. Or as we say in Denmark, something to the courtyard and something to the street.""
Helena Christensen
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A career, no matter how successful, can`t put its arms around you. You end up being like Grand Central Station with people just coming and going. And there you are--left all alone.
Inger Stevens
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(when asked why he did the voice of Tommy Vercetti for the video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City") "For the money."
Ray Liotta
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I tend to be a little grand in terms of storytelling, I`ve never been limited by anybody`s sense of reality.
David E. Kelley
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Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
Claudia Christian
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I had no grand plan. Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn`t true.
Sean Connery
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[On Hollywood] "To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony."
Billie Burke
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(On Vincent Price and Peter Cushing) They were both grand masters, of their art but more importantly as human beings...wonderful people, wonderful actors and I miss them very very much.
Christopher Lee
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When you don`t have power, which I still don`t in the grand Hollywood scheme of things, you get offered things that you wouldn`t ordinarily be offered. Frequently, other people know what I can do more than I do.
Peter Sarsgaard
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I feel like I`m just doing a job. It`s amazing to think that you affect other peoples` lives on such a grand scale. I`m so thankful for that, and I`m so lucky. It`s hard to stop and think that people are interested in me.
Kip Pardue
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If you start watching the oldies, you`re in trouble. I feel ancient if Grand Hotel (1932) or The Bride Wore Red (1937) comes on. I have a sneaking regard for _Mildred Pierce (1945)_, but the others do nothing for me.
Joan Crawford
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[On the ending of Stroszek (1977):] "When I saw the dancing chicken, I knew I would create a grand metaphor -- for what, I don`t know."
Werner Herzog
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I don`t want to be known as the grand-daughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
Paris Hilton
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. The reason why there`s operas and novels and pop tunes written about love is because it`s such an extraordinary thing, not because it`s commonplace...
Bono
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[on hearing that Elijah Wood told a reporter that Monaghan, Wood, and Billy Boyd were considering sharing a home in New Zealand:] "He has all these grand plans. We did look at property in New Zealand. What we`re going to do first, correct me if I`m wrong,...
Dominic Monaghan
Keywords: all :: and :: at :: billy :: boyd :: considering :: correct :: did :: do :: elijah :: first :: going :: grand :: has :: he :: hearing :: home :: if :: in :: is :: look :: me :: monaghan :: new :: on :: plans :: property :: re :: reporter :: sharing :: that :: these :: to :: told :: we :: were :: what :: wood :: wrong :: zealandSource: imdb.com
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You`ve got to see it to believe it. I say it`s grand. And the Titanic at its time was the largest ship in the world at 42,000 tons. Now this is three times the size of the Titanic .
Jeff Martin
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You know, I used to listen to Bill Monroe on the Grand Ole Opry, ... But what got me was when my oldest brother got a Flatt and Scruggs record. I was about 11 at the time and, boy, when I heard Earl Scruggs, that was it. That turned a big old light bulb o...
Del McCoury
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You know it`s only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.
Don Shula
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Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.
Diane Keaton
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Will you do it? Will you marry the Grand Ole Opry?
Marty Stuart
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Who knows, she can then be the top-two or the number one, or even win a Grand Slam.
Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy
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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.
Morley Safer
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When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon`s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it`s all too clear the horror of what went on.
Bob Woodward
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When this started I was hoping for a home run. I think we`ve hit a grand slam. I think we do everything exactly the way we did it even if we had an extra month to work with.
Jeff Black
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When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
Vivien Leigh
