Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.
It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.
. . . it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression. " "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly. "These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly.
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.
What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.
I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.
The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy. '
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now. . . My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.
