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Grail Quotes

Quotes using the holy grail as a symbol of the ultimate goal.

This collection of grail quotes uses the phrase 'holy grail' as a metaphor for the hardest goals to reach, from a balanced government budget to changing lives through television.

Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it - is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.

Quotes by Adam Lashinsky

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

Quotes by William Vickrey

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

Quotes by Tristram Stuart

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...

Quotes by Trevor St. John

Ale Quotes

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.

Quotes by Taylor Wilson

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...

Quotes by Stephanie Laurens

A reforming liberal leader in Russia is the Holy Grail of Kremlinology, but the search for one is as misguided and hopeless as that for the relic of the Last Supper.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

That's really the Holy Grail of conducting: how to change the sound of an orchestra just with our hands alone.

Quotes by Ruth Reinhardt

If we can be changing some lives along the way, that's the holy grail on television.

Quotes by Nancy Dubuc

Alone Quotes

I'd say for a film composer, 'Star Wars' is kind of like the holy grail of film music. It's probably the best film music ever written.

Quotes by Ludwig Goransson

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...

Quotes by Jim Rash

I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.

Quotes by Jeremy Piven

The Holy Grail audience are young people and, at the end of the day, that's who gets courted.

Quotes by Greg Mottola

I've had the privilege of playing in our top seven leagues and the main differences when stepping up are organisation, athleticism and decisiveness. Believe me, the gap is even more evident when you achieve the holy grail of the Premier...

Quotes by Glenn Murray

Always Quotes

That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.

Quotes by Glen Mazzara

In addition to the vehicles currently known, the holy grail of commercial spaceflight remains a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable spaceplane.

Quotes by Dylan Taylor

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...

Quotes by Damien Chazelle

The holy grail of recipe developing is the recipe that turns out so much more impressive than you would expect from the effort it took to produce.

Quotes by Claire Saffitz

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.

Quotes by Bre Pettis

End Quotes

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

Quotes by Ben Nicholson

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Grail quotes collection about?
This page gathers quotes that use "holy grail" as a metaphor for an especially difficult or valuable goal, across politics, food, and entertainment.
Why do people search for grail quotes?
People look for grail quotes when they want a vivid way to describe an ultimate, hard-to-reach goal in writing, speeches, or everyday conversation.
How is the grail metaphor used in a political context here?
One quote describes the pursuit of a balanced government budget as an "insane pursuit of the holy grail," warning it could actually harm the economy.
Is the grail metaphor applied to something as ordinary as food?
Yes, one quote calls good food obtained for free the holy grail of foragers, tracing the idea back to ancestral survival instincts.
Does the collection connect the grail metaphor to entertainment or media?
Yes, one quote describes changing people's lives through television as the holy grail of that medium, showing the phrase's use in a creative, aspirational sense.

One quote also applies the grail metaphor to foraging for free food, showing how widely the phrase is used well beyond its original medieval legend, right through to the very End of the list.