Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history.
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.