Grail Quotations

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That's the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form.

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.

My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.

Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.

My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.

We're forever in search of the Holy Grail of investing and that's some formula to give us the answer, ... That's the whole problem. These things work - until you try to use them.

Luxury Institute researchers found most luxury brands in the writing instruments category, as in the luxury watches category, to be niche brands, with 1% to 4% awareness among the wealthy, and in many cases, known only to connoisseurs. Still, the holy grail of a luxury brand is a Harry Winston, or a Rolls Royce, brands that are known to the majority of wealthy consumers, but are affordable by only a few. That feat requires brilliant products, and even more brilliant marketing skills.

I don't know why all of a sudden the holy grail of security and safety is now closing records. It seems to me we would be more secure if we knew what was going on around us. ... Apparently there are those in government who want to close all these records and say, 'We'll keep you safe, trust us.

The pursuit of the small business has always been the holy grail of e-commerce.

What woman wouldn't want to be pursued in a flattering, non-physically threatening way by a gorgeous, fascinating, intelligent man? Being wanted, desired, being the focus of a man's aspirations, his goal, his grail - the one companion he must have to live contentedly - is one of the most universal and fundamental of female wishes.

Having watched the pride of some countries in acquiring the world-stage status of having nuclear weapons -- and what that has meant for nationalism and leadership ... it becomes almost a piece of the holy grail for a small country that otherwise might be victimized living in a dangerous neighborhood,

Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true.

That's the Holy Grail of collecting -- if you can get the whole cast,

What were they going to do with the Grail when they found it, Mr Rossetti?

While nobles are crying in their nights' chains, the squires sing. The terrible politics of the Grail can never touch them. Song is the magic cape.

Fiction is always pushed in schools as the holy grail of reading. Boys tend to like non-fiction more.

The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

We have 30 big steps to the holy grail again. You take one step at a time.

We are still looking for that magic number, the holy grail that will bring in new buyers.

Being the lead face of a network news division is still the Holy Grail of broadcast journalism.

Energy per instruction set is the new Holy Grail for delivering performance in the next generation of platforms.

Energy per instruction is the new Holy Grail for delivery performance.

There's nothing that makes more sense than selling digital content. It completely removes the inventory problem. It completely removes physical handling of goods. That's really the holy grail for online retailers.

Privacy is not just a compliance issue for the legal department. It should be a priority for everyone. You have to translate privacy into a customer issue because this is really becoming the holy grail of doing business for everyone in an on-line world.

As far as I'm concerned, we just hit the ball out of the park. This is the Holy Grail of modern-day planetary exploration, evidence of liquid water somewhere else in the solar system.

The building and construction market is the Holy Grail of the insulation market, and can take up millions of square feet each,

The relevance of search is still the Holy Grail for any search application,

This is the Holy Grail of all this -- viewer participation. . . . For the next generation, they'll eat this up.

This is the holy grail for advertisers and consumers. It is an online marketplace of qualified leads.

Everybody's eyes were glued to this auction. It is the Holy Grail of baseball cards. It is the Mona Lisa. There's nothing else like it.

That is the clear piece of evidence to me that Holy Blood, Holy Grail was not around when I wrote the synopsis.

It used to be for writers that that six seasons and a movie thing, that's the holy grail as writers - your series goes eight, 10 seasons, you're set for life.

If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting.

I don't think there's a holy grail in chasing the lower end for its own sake,

The holy grail of our research is to convince those cells to regenerate, but now, we need to first understand what the composition of hair cells are and how they develop. We believe that a molecular understanding of the function of hair cells is needed to ultimately prevent hearing loss, and stimulate the regeneration of hair cells in mammals.

The holy grail is to always have perfectly uniform services from anywhere to anywhere. Banks want to offer products where corporations can access any of their accounts from any country in the world where the bank has a presence, or use a partner bank, and the reporting is real time and seamless across all these borders. What banks are doing is building a veneer over this fragmentation. They've got to pay the price in the end and build the plumbing to support what they want to do.