Top 22 Grand Style Quotes
#2. Things like this don't happen all that often in one lifetime. This is the magnificent world of a picaresque novel. Just brace yourself and enjoy the smell of evil. We're shooting the rapids. And when we go over the falls, let's do it together in grand style!
Haruki Murakami
#3. Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
Irving Babbitt
#4. The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
Mason Cooley
#5. Love met with respect and grand style Love - A flirtation with true lovers of love had taken his salvific beginning.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#6. Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
#7. I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.
Bernard Hopkins
#8. Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#9. The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. Cassini is different
it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.
Carolyn Porco
#11. According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.
Lindsey Graham
#12. But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.
Grandmaster Flash
#13. It is vain for painters ... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.
Joshua Reynolds
#14. Look here, my boy, if you have average intelligence, about half the things you do are bound to be right, which is a fair achievement for any career. Don't spend sleepless nights over them.
R.P. Noronha
#15. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.
Marilyn Monroe
#16. The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
Bhartrhari
#17. No one likes kids. We say we do, and we take pictures of pregnant women for People Magazine, but really they're commodities - we hate them around, we hate them on airplanes, we consider them a grand imposition and almost a style choice.
Sarah Ruhl
#18. I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.
Brian Swimme
#19. Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
Gerald Early
#20. There are some directors I hear about in nighttime or some I used to work with who walk around like gods.
Eric Braeden
#22. Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.
Josef Pieper