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.

Eric Liu

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

David Mitchell

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Chen Shui-bian

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Mike Massucci

During our timeout with :06 left, Travis told me he wanted the ball. It wasn't said with arrogance. It was just an inner-confidence.

Derrick Mason

Coach Billick, he just has a personality about him that you don't understand unless you're playing for him, ... He's all about his players. Did I think it was arrogance when I first got here? Yes. But now that I am here, I truly see what type of coach he is.

Woody Allen

I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me

Morshed Khan

This is not a proposal but an ultimatum that smacks of arrogance of the minority in parliament.

Joe Gill

Both of them were very classy when they played here - never any baloney, never any arrogance. They just came to play. You couldn't get them out, but you appreciated how they played.

Troy Glaus

J.P. has brought in pitchers and hitters to help out and that's just what we're going to try and do. We're going to try to put this team back to the level it's been before and the level it deserves to be.

Robert Lewis

He led one public life ... but there was a second side, a hidden side to Henry J. Lyons, a side that caused him to be brought here to this seat,

Tony Jaa

I love every type of martial arts, but with Muay Thai in general, I want to see it being brought to the public more. There is no movie that has Muay Thai incorporated into it, so I want to bring that to the public.

Sufjan Stevens

In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I've been thinking about how subjective history is.

B. F. Skinner

This was one of those days where we weren't playing really well and just brought it together at the right time. I give a lot of credit to our kids for staying with it.

R. Robinson

There are so many things to learn and it's not just a source of amusement, but it is sometimes hilarious. Not too long ago they brought in this woman who was about 70 and she was naked as a jaybird out directing traffic on I-65.

Paul Williamson

There are so many community leaders who came here to go to college and have stayed and given back to the community. Flagler College brought us here.

Dan Gilroy

I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.

Ryan Tucker

What we haven't had here in the past is a quarterback who has some confidence about himself. Somebody that comes in the huddle and takes control, is confident enough in the offense to make O-line calls if he has to. That's what he's brought to the table.

David Gordon

Historically, packaging has been one of the major delays for us in getting product out the door.

Thomas Gunderson

I think it's brilliant. The worst-case outcome for them is that they delay Johnson and force them to pay several million dollars more for Guidant, which weakens them as a competitor.

Jack Finn

He's going to be looking after a program that has been fraught with delay, faulty science, mismanagement and misdirection.

John Velazquez

We must have run over two or three geese. One of their feathers was in my foot. It was a delayed reaction. After she went through them, then she got scared.

Samuel Johnson

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Barham Salih

Please do not delay -- the time to make firm commitments is now. Honor your pledges now.

Kevin Madden

I just think the support for Mr. Delay has been emphatic.

Tom Shipka

By his opting for a path of delay under the guise of studying the Panel report further, Mr. Sweet has repudiated the Panel report in an exhibition of cronyism that has no precedent in the modern history of this university to my knowledge.

Charles Schumer

If the President were to voluntarily institute the review and delay the contract, that would obviate the need for our legislation, but a simple cooling-off period will not allay our concerns.

Chris McConnon

Having three lines has helped us out a lot." ()

Paul Wagner

It helped that I knew Gail's story. If her Web page had just said, 'I need a kidney,' it wouldn't have pulled me in.

Willy Taveras

It helped my body, ... My wrist is not sore anymore, and I'm not tired.

Kate Ziegler

It helped a lot to have done well in the 1,500, ... I had a lot of confidence.

Gary Williams

I just didn't know a lot about the NIT, the new format, and in talking to C.M. Newton, that helped a little bit. I would think with the resources the NCAA has, they can make it a better tournament. We'll see.

Debbie Ford

If you don't have a doctor that inspires you, no matter what you have, you should find one that does. Because I feel like my doctor helped me stay alive.

Gary Molea

I just think it would have helped the small schools.

Condoleezza Rice

In hindsight, if anything might have helped stop 9/11, it would have been better information about threats inside the United States.

Mitch Kapor

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

F. Stone

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Gary Brown

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

Gretchen Gigley

It's better to purchase a front-loading washing machine if you're in the market for a new machine.

Julian Assange

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented,

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Sam Marchio

What you have to remember is he's shown he can raise the money when he needs to.

Anthony Solomon

I thought we should give the money back to the fans.

Robert Kraft

I think when you spend up to $10 million, that's real money,

Joe Kasper

Whatever this costs, it is going to save us money in the end.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Samuel P. Huntington

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies

William F. Buckley, Jr.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Richard M. Nixon

Where the hell is Chad?

Richard M. Nixon

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Rich Lowry

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Robert Caro

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Jose Rizal

Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

Kurt Cobain

The finest day i ever had was when tomorrow never came

Henry Blodget

Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.

Epicurus

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness...

Ken Wilber

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...

Keith Richards

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician; HE PASSED IT ON.

Sia Furler

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Charles Lamb

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.