Grandness Quotes

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

The true grandeur and excellence of a prince ... does not consist in honors, in gold, in purple, and other luxuries of fortune, but in prudence, wisdom and knowledge.

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.

I'm grand once I keep winning trophies. That's all that counts.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Many people ask me why I chose to remake 'Devdas.' I wanted to make a film that celebrated grandeur and grace.

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.

This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

… a grand effervescence

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.