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.

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.

Wangari Maathai

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.

W. H. Auden

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

William Congreve

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

Tory Burch

Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

Anton LaVey

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

Robert Cormier

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Saul Bellow

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

William Booth

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

John Cleese

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Kim Harrison

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Roberta Baskin

If you want to be serious about it, there has to be some enforcement mechanism.

Brian Billick

I'm told that it's not serious and it's typical.

Nancy Thayer

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Milan Kundera

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Jonny Lang

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.