Everyone else wants to hear ‘I wanna be Top 5,’ or ‘I want to be winning a Grand Slam.’ Those are all goals of mine, but I’m not going to put a time limit on them.
Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.
It’s always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.
For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says ‘no,’ but since this is a project that comes from me and not a commission, I have to find the money, plan the logistics, etcetera.
I feel a lot of confidence from that memory, playing final first time in Grand Slam. But also I always think that I could play a little better in a final. I lost straight sets. I didn’t do well.
In the grand scheme of things, polar bears are the least of our problems when it comes to climate change.
British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion of someone making a grand statement. It is always easier to be ironic, or ‘meta’, or coolly postmodern. But I think there is such a thing as authentic sentimentality.
Even when I was a little kid, I always dreamed that I would play Serena in a final of a Grand Slam.
Well I don’t write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
Reaching my first grand slam final was amazing, and I didn’t expect it at just 19 years old.
And I think it’s a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don’t have a grand piano… and to try to win people over that way. It’s really hard.
For me, yeah, that’s going to be my big goal to win a Masters or Grand Slams.
I prefer the Grand Slam than the No. 1, but still, to get No. 1, not many players did that, so it’s going to be very important for me.
It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.
When I wrote ‘Grand Illusion,’ I was making it up as we went along. I wrote this stuff and tried to do the best job I could.
What works for one writer may not work for another. There are as many methods as there are writers. Were you to live to a grand old age, you would still never have enough time to try them all.
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.
I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.
I don’t really set out to explore grand themes. I set out to tell a story. And one I have to be able to imagine right through.
The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you’re a Southern boy, is just a way of life.
Especially the top players, they always try to set their own form, so to say, around the Grand Slams because that’s where they want to play their best.
I remember back in the early ’70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, ‘Don’t worry, you’re going to be a late boomer.’ That’s what she said to me, and I’ve always held that thought.
One Thanksgiving weekend, I had a lost weekend at a friend’s place with ‘Grand Theft Auto.’
When you’re a dancer, you start with the basics. You don’t all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.
Winning a Grand Slam is not something I’ll think about.
Being on a grand jury felt like attending a series of hangings in a legal Wild West. Hands up for a true bill. Hands up for a dismissal. A show of hands to save a life, or to end it.
I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It’s such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can’t think too deeply about that when I’m working, or I’d never get anything down on the page.
I’m not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.
I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don’t think about dying, either.
The Grand Bargain is a Grand Lie. Anyone who argues for it is either a fool or a charlatan. If President Obama was anything but the establishment hack that he is, he would never consider it.
I’ve made great friends through acting. When I’m with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
Today’s restaurant is theater on a grand scale.
You need to form a grand coalition, and you need to put your ideological differences aside and work together to focus on people’s basic needs. You can’t eat sharia.
After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become ‘A Grand Day Out.’
I’m not the grand poobah. I’m not the emperor. That’s not what I want to be.
It doesn’t always work out that you win a tournament and then a Grand Slam, but I’m happy to have the confidence.
In Grand Slam, you play every two days, five-set match. You have a little bit more time to make mistake.
Girls are like pianos. When they’re not upright, they’re grand.
From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there’s been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven’t won it – John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O’Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.
My charity is called ‘Grand Kids.’ People keep thinking it’s ‘Grandkids.’
The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It’s made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
When we grew up, our family and kind of gaggle of cousins would go to the south of France for the summers. And we just had a grand time.
I feel like you could watch ‘Grand Budapest’ without sound, and it would still be funny.
I’m pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There’s just no common ground. I don’t know if it’s distrust or that the politics is substantially more partisan than the public. But there’s no pressure to make a grand bargain on fiscal matters, on growth, on anything.
Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.
Famous for his ‘Maverick’ Western series in the 1950s and ‘The Rockford Files’ in the ’70s, and in movies like ‘The Great Escape’ and ‘Grand Prix’ in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.
I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation started with one wish out of Phoenix, Arizona, and the organization has grown so grand ever since.
My first match on a Grand Slam show court was when I played Petra Kvitova on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 2015. Petra was the defending champion and I think I was done in 34 minutes.
You know it’s only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, ‘No.’
I mean, Trump’s Oval Office is like Grand Central Station. People try briefing him and someone comes in and interrupts him. People just sort of walk in without being previously announced in any meaningful way.
When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.
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.
The Beijing Olympics represent China’s grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
Always I say, ‘No. 1 in the world without a Grand Slam, you are not a real No. 1.’
Ain’t nothing but 10 grand. What’s 10 grand to me?
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.
It’s always this grand search in the industry to find good material. Whenever there is good material, they all jump on it, and it’s like a food fight to get it made. That’s why so many things take years and years to develop because it all shows up on screen.
At a grand evening service in a church, my concerto created such a furor that the worshippers rushed out to keep the crowd outside the church quiet.
