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.

Michael King

I was a little surprised they didn't get more money for retroactive royalties, ... but I think it's a reasonable settlement given Gilead's part of it, Roche's part of it and the broader public health implications ... neither wanted to come out of this looking greedy.

Gary Rodkin

We look forward to sharing details of the impact of these decisions in our investors' meeting in March. These are only part of our broader plans to drive sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.

Joe Malugen

We look forward to closing the Hollywood transaction promptly. With a broader geographic presence and greatly improved distribution capabilities and scale, our combined company will be a strong competitor.

Michael Sheldon

Intel's news is going to hurt techs tomorrow. I think if the payroll numbers are disappointing, too, you're going to see a broader sell-off.

Charles Crane

If there's any doubt about this bull market's stamina, yesterday should have quieted some of those doubts. There was no news, positive or negative, in the marketplace. And yet the Dow rose to an all-time high and the broader market was strong as well.

Tom Vosa

In the short term these difficulties won't have too much impact because of the broader trends that are under way. But if this continues it may start to have an impact on the strength of house prices and inward investment.

David Vitter

I'm very excited to be at least some small part in the effort, ... This is a great, state-of-the-art facility that can be used for many events, especially the equestrian and 4-H activities. It also is a broader resource for education and economic development.

Stephen Voss

In any case, narrower representation has more power than broader interests.

Richard Hunter

The certification is important, especially for customers who want to export their product. It's a much broader market than what we had before. I'd probably say over half of our business right now is medical.

Tony Prpic

I think University had an injury bug a little bit, so some of their guys ended up a little tired there in the third period, and we were fortunate to pop in a few goals there to kind of pull away. It wasn't a certainty, I think, until that third goal. That took some of the wind out of their sails.

Jesse Plemons

I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.

Jim Schmitz

Instead of settling down, he gives up two hits and the lead. It's a lack of focus that really bugs me.

Jeff McDonald

Once it gets close to 50 (degrees), you just get the bug to start riding.

Shae Sanford

It's quite an honor. We had a successful year all the way around, football and basketball. We were really just one shot away from being in Austin. It's gonna bug me until, hopefully, we're able to go past that point. Then it'll all be worth it.

Tina Martin

They will squash you like a bug if you don't show up and play.

James Hall

It wasn't anything that bugged me or motivated me.

Edward Burns

It wasn't a bug that he stepped on, it was evolution,

Scott Gibson

I've been working on cars since I was in high school, ... And he's (Jason) got the bug now.

David Waltemeyer

Our efforts have always been, and will continue to be, to make sure the driver ... and the passenger are not consuming the alcohol.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Consuming less is the fastest way to eco-fashion redemption - particularly if your preference is for leather, not hemp.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.

Chris Moore

I think that's what we need is the optimism and not all the gloom and doom that can come out of the situation that we have right now.

Al Goldman

It's been horribly grim this week. There's a high level of gloom and doom in the market and a low level of optimism.

Tom Wright

It was pretty doom and gloom for a while.

John Keats

The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.

Richard Harris

These programs are hurting me more than helping me. I think we were just doomed from the get-go.

John McCarthy

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

Eric Warner

was being looked at in a way that had him doomed from the start.

Christopher Lasch

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

Kendrick Macdowell

It does get wearisome to hear the prophets of doom say we're on the way out, because it's just not true. It's shallow thinking.

Willie Nelson

I think it's time we start looking seriously at alternative energies so we don't have to go around the world looking for oil,

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.

Chris Evert

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.

Michel Faber

My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I'm in when I write is a very lonely one, so I found that harder and harder to get back to.

Les Moonves

There is a genuine question whether people are going to want to pay $12 a month for (Howard Stern).

Chris Eigeman

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.

David Mulovhedzi

It's a very genuine type of show. We have music that the world has never heard. We praise God in a very different way.

Pat Hill

It was a great process and learning experience. I think it speaks volumes about the quality of our program at Fresno State. With the schemes we run and type of young men who come through our program, it's a great testament to our overall program that several NFL teams had a genuine interest.

D. H. Lawrence

When genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot

Lloyd Alexander

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

Ephraim Sneh

What has to worry us is whether it will be a genuine deployment or a make-believe deployment, and at present the impression is that it will be a make-believe deployment,

Keeley Hawes

I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.

Aravind Adiga

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in,

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Mark Bailey

I would've preferred if ours was the last shot. But we had a good look, and we had the guy shooting that we wanted to.

Billy Beane

Ken did a great job for us. We've always said that. He was a good enough manager for us to want him back before, and he's still a good enough manager to come back.

Tim Crowder

Keeping them at their average, no, I don't think that's going to be good enough to win.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

David Parker

Keeping everything as lean as possible is a good thing in the long run.

Dan Anderson

I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, something worse was happening,

R. Ingram

I watched the news and read the newspaper with my dad,

Art Hogan

This is more of a technically-driven rally. If the news is positive for the rest of the week, we should trend higher, but not enough to set any new record highs.

Orrin Hatch

If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder

Anthony Crescenzi

Again, another whipsaw day, ... What big news did we get today? ... Nothing.

Mike Holmgren

The news is good, thank God. We were all saying prayers for him.

Michael Casserly

The news here for us is the progress, the trend line, the strong upward tilt of the numbers.

Michael Sheldon

The news from Cisco was disappointing for tech investors,

Jim Bianco

The news doesn't come much better than this.

Mark Landy

I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,

John Emerich

Resist your time - take a foothold outside it

Amit Hazan

I like the strategy they're taking, which is to consolidate the smaller players outside the U.S. to become a stronger player,

Taylor Momsen

Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.

Rob Sims

It sits outside the realm of the DBA and application provider.

Dan Patrick

It's time for outside thinking. It's time for an outside viewpoint. And it's time for the people to have a voice in Austin.

Natalie Hall

It's freezing. If I always had to stand outside to smoke I would understand, too.

Kristen Johnston

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

Joan Didion

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

Ron Clark

We represent the reputation of BYU, and there is little room for error.

Eddie Guardado

I wanted to represent my country. It's an honor.

Robert Klein

They do not come to represent those institutions.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Charles Freeman

Stop Undermining My Constitutional Right to Represent Myself.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Stokely Carmichael

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Robert Orr

This is not some technical or arcane requirement.

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Derek Magyar

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

Stephen Jay Gould

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Sylvester McCoy

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Allison Tolman

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.