Holy Grail Quotes

• If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

  William Vickrey

  Depression, Insane, Economy

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• I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

  Ben Nicholson

  Mean, Ideas, Minimum

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• Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

  William H. Macy

  Girl, Real, Pirate

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• Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Perfect, Literature

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• I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

  Graham Chapman

  Mother, Father, Animal

  "Fictional character: Frenchman". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.

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• Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

  Michael Palin

  Lying, Government, Books And Movies

  "Fictional character: Dennis". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.

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• First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

  Michael Palin

  Naughty, Sight, Hands

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• When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.

  Graham Chapman

  Tails, Ugly, Danger

  "Fictional character: Singing Minstrel". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1975.

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• I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

  Graham Chapman

  Mean, Peasants, Emperor

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• Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

  Graham Chapman

  Lying, Government, Books And Movies

  "Fictional character: Dennis". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1975.

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• Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

  Graham Chapman

  Peace, Spanish Inquisition, Monty

  "Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Spanish Inquisition". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1970.

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• And now for something completely different...

  John Cleese

  Nudge Nudge, Different, Circus

  "Q&A: And now for something completely John Cleese". Interview with Ian Brown, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better. Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!

  Graham Chapman

  Thinking, Long, Make You Think

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• If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.

  Steve Sabol

  One Piece, Top Gear, Quarterback

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

  Graham Chapman

  Change, Knights, Zoom

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• What have the Romans ever done for us?

  John Cleese

  Done, Rhetorical Question, Sanitation

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

  Karl Marx

  Hair, Gold, Principles

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.149, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There's no messiahs out here, baby, but I found the holy grail alright. Cause I'm lying in your arms tonight.

  Marc Cohn

  Religious, Baby, Lying

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• People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Referrals, Digital Marketing

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• If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocketship to the mix. If a book has a rocketship in it, the only thing that can turn it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.

  Debra Doyle

  Horse, Book, Fiction

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• The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

  Banksy

  Art, People, Looks

  "Something to Spray". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2003.

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• I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.

  Jack London

  Life, Spiritual, Sweet

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.7429, Delphi Classics

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• In the case of the tip rule, Donald Trump has delivered a huge gift to the owners of big chain restaurants, for whom getting their hands on workers' tips has been a holy grail for a very long time. In Donald Trump, they finally found a president who will do their bidding.

  Heidi Shierholz

  Long, President, Holy

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• The holy grail for a music fan is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever. Or, even better, from lots of different planets. The closest we got to that was before the Internet, when people didn't know of each other's existence. Now, that doesn't really happen.

  Aphex Twin

  People, Fans, Different

  "Strange Visitor: A Conversation With Aphex Twin" by Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. 2014.

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