Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Gardener

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

Bruce Davison

I'd like to tell them thank you. Their courage and ambition to get a higher education ... is something I truly admire. It's something I can't picture, but it's something I know happened, and that's why I commend them for doing what they've done.

Marc Jones

He had his pick of schools. But his ambition is to become a top entrepreneur and businessman, and that's why he chose Bentley.

William Law

All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

William Shenstone

It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?

Richard Rorty

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

Werner Herzog

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

Samuel Fuller

Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.

Wangari Maathai

There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Sara Bareilles

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

Rebecca De Mornay

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

Tracie Bennett

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Robert Glasper

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.

Mike Love

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

Mandy Moore

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

Ellen DeGeneres

I've learned 2 things about tv. It's always easier with vodka & SOME OF THE BEST SINGERS ARE FROM THE PHILIPPINES

Prince Philip

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

John Wingfield

We have to be on our toes every day.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Jonathan Stroud

Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.

Roberta Childers

The Hippodrome was drafty. Our toes had no feeling.

Billy Sunday

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

Coolio

I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.

Deepak Chopra

If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock?

Steve Bartlett

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.