Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Babbage

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

Ian Campbell

The title has been our ambition since day one and now we have to go out and clinch it. Then I will celebrate properly.

Celso Amorim

We will not lower the level of ambition of the round. If necessary we may lower the level of expectation for Hong Kong,

Andrew Miller

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

E. Stanley Jones

We grow small trying to be great.

E. O. Wilson

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to Icarus of the Greek myth.

Tony Blair

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

Tom Rachman

Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

Simon Le Bon

You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

Dale Evans

Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.

Chuck Norris

I'm very grateful for every thing I have. You know when you start losing that then you start losing what life's all about.

Robert Knepper

I think every actor should be always grateful when they work.

T. Harv Eker

Focus on what you're grateful for in your life. If you don't appreciate what you have, you won't get any more... because the universe thinks it's not important to you, and therefore you don't need any more.

Mitch Albom

People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable.

Luz Hoyt

I'm so grateful to my mother for helping us out while we went through all of the paperwork. We wouldn't have been able to do it without her.

Friederike Boszko

I'm so grateful that you showed him your love.

Jill Takayama

I'm so grateful that my family's not here.

Carrie Newcomer

Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day.

M. Thompson

We're just humbled by the miracle of the whole thing.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

George Beranek

This is really pulling out the big guns. If you think about it, this is working at the margin with a very large volume, so it's going to have a very pronounced price effect.

Jim Hartman

We just could not stop Dennett. He played large tonight.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Peter Mandelson

It sometimes seems to me they won't be satisfied until they have seen proposals implemented that would ... wipe out large sections of agriculture in Europe,

Gregory Kutz

They are really not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of mass disruption. They wouldn't necessarily have enough radiation to kill anyone, but they could require the shutdown of potentially large parts of the city.

Luis Diaz

There were so many of them and a large portion were already on the beach. We're just making sure no one drowns.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Brent Scowcroft

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

Confucius

Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

Steve Spurrier

Coaching to me is correcting mistakes and trying to get your players to think. If raising your voice occasionally gets them to think better, then that's called coaching.

Stephen King

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

Taylor Swift

There's room for role models who make mistakes.

T. Berry Brazelton

you learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Brenda Frese

I didn't have to say a word to them before overtime. They know it's their time. They played with so much confidence.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Heather Sawyer

I think the whole team played well and we had a very strong serve-receive.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Sherilyn Fenn

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

Tionne Watkins

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

Mike Tyson

I am not a role model.

Mario Lopez

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Charles Harris

I would not have got to make my first film and I would not have been able to set up my second film.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

J. C. Chandor

To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.

Steve Adelsperger

We didn't rebound, we didn't do anything we talked about. They rebounded, they got second shots, and they made them.

Stephen Jones

We have visited with Mr. McVeigh. We are going to work with him today, tonight and tomorrow for the second stage on Wednesday. I can't say anything more at this time.

Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Eileen Kleinfelter

We won the second half. I thought we were strong with the ball, had strong rebounding and didn't have too many turnovers.