424 Grand Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books. Nalo Hopkinson

For me, grand slams are something you dream about playing as a kid. Naomi Osaka

Me You Kid Dream About Something Grand Grand Slams Playing

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed. Nellie Bly

I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect. Nelson Mandela

Me Respect Fear Few White Local Our Magistrate Area Through Policemen Occasionally Course Boy Passed Came Were Mixture Gods Grand Across Whites Appeared Travelers Aware Nearest Treated

Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting. Nicholas Haslam

Setting Intimate Small Most Houses Grand English

'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching. Nicolas Cage

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Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life. Nicolas Cage

Life He Very Than Bigger Grand Actor Larger

People always think that the worst time of my life must have been after the German Grand Prix crash in 1976, which put me in a coma and left me with severe burns. But it wasn't. Niki Lauda

I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state. Noah Feldman

Religion Son Word Big State Define Point He True Particular Know Dealing Same Anything Wants Grand Chair Right Thing

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. Nolan Bushnell

Behavior Most Heap Scorn Antisocial Auto Where Grand Theft

I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception. Pankaj Mishra

Political Binary Rest Think Clash Insidious Some Economic Particularly Ideological West Versus Deception Form Conflicts Grand Theory

I can't count on both hands how many Grand Prixs I've done and how many world championships I've been to, so I think I've really earned the experience to know that when I step on the ice at nationals and when I step on the ice at the Olympics that I feel completely aware of my environment and what to expect. Patrick Chan

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury. Patty Hearst

People Will Other Those Members Immunity Had Also Sure Witnesses Were Been Jury Grand Grand Jury Then Granted Who Two

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life? Paul Davies

One Thanksgiving weekend, I had a lost weekend at a friend's place with 'Grand Theft Auto.' Paul Dini

Thanksgiving Lost Weekend Had Friend Auto Grand Place Theft

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science. Paul Johnson

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Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration. Paul Stamets

Habitat Vanguard Restoration Grand Planet Species

In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide. Paula Deen

Game Fans Year Rose Worldwide Parade Dream Ringing Marshal Sharing True New Come Look House Bowl Always Tradition Been Celebration New Year Grand Viewers Forward Serve

I've never worried about the grand concepts. Peter Falk

Worried About Never Concepts Grand

I was the only one in my family to be musically inclined, and my mother loved that. It encouraged my grand aunt to find me a music teacher, because it was quite obvious music was in me. Peter Tosh

Teacher Music Family Me Mother Musically Find Only Obvious Because Aunt Encouraged Quite Loved Grand Inclined

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