Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or island:
“The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)