Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
My longest collaborative working relationship is with Katie Grand, the editor-in-chief of ‘Love’ magazine. Katie’s an inspiration and a sounding block. She’s got such great taste.
Kyrgios has got to look in the mirror if he wants to become a top player and win Grand Slams.
It’s my dream to win a grand slam title.
Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
‘School for Wives’ is Moliere’s first step toward grand comedy, but he still has one foot in commedia.
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as ‘the Negro President’).
Wherever I’m at, if I’m playing well I can put myself into a position to win any tournament, including grand slams.
There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.
There’s nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It’s wonderful music. It’s – on a grand scale, there’s a lot to it. There are – I can work on it for a long time and keep discovering more things, you know, that surprise me every time.
When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
‘Original Sin’ is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I’m sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
I don’t put myself under huge pressure because if I don’t play well at one grand slam, I know there’s another one just a couple of months away.
Like you can’t have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can’t make a microscope that can do it all.
Years ago I played different female roles in ‘Grand Indian Comedy Show,’ but as it was not as popular show as ‘TKSS’ and ‘CNWK,’ it never got noticed.
