Word: grand
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Just so you know, I am not one of those seniors who has no idea what she's doing next year. I have grand plans for my future. Very exciting, very detailed plans. If only they weren't classified, I'd go into them here...
...fact, I must concede that most grand plans I've had simply haven't panned out. Of course, that doesn't make me reconsider my elaborate plotting. Not until the moment has passed can I accept that a plan was never going to leave its paper. Likewise, I'll bet it takes the five of us until our final closeout to admit (despite all the evidence) that the rigid guidelines we designed last winter were simply not meant to be. I, for one, am still holding out hope that next week's issue came in two weeks...
Still, it wasn't until after he signed a deal to represent hardware maker Cisco Systems in Japan in 1993 that Son's grand Internet vision began to fall into place. "When you have the railroad being laid, you can see the train, you start to imagine the passengers, and you know there will be department stores going up around the station," he says in the midst of one of his characteristic soliloquies. "I had a feeling this was going...
...make this grand theory truly watertight, we must show that it also works in a dynamic way. Ergo: when bad-coffee countries discover the bliss of Kenyan Blue, they should lay down their assault rifles at the first hiss of a milk steamer...
QUENTIN CRISP once paid me the grand, pontifical compliment that I was "his representative here on earth." This referred to my having played him in the film of his autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant. At the time, Quentin was untraveled and 60 years old. He referred to the latter part of his expected life as "the twilight of my life." I suggested that "sunset" would be a more accurate description. He lived to be 90, and the soft light of his sunset enriched the lives of many people...