Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katie McGrath

I'm a very ambitious girl. I'll go wherever there is a good part.

Margaret Fuller

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Herbie Hancock

I brought my 40 years of jazz experience to the table, ... but I wanted to make something more ambitious than a little box.

Darlene Pennline

Olive was a beautiful and ambitious young girl and went to stay with an aunt in New York City, where she took a job in a department store. In 1914, she entered and won The Most Beautiful Girl in New York City contest run by celebrated commercial artist Howard Chandler Christy.

Rick Miller

I have always had two qualities: I'm very ambitious and very persistent. I decided that this little joke had potential.

Christian Bale

I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.

Chris Hughes

Anybody can be ambitious.

Gregg Bishop

(Chad and I) grew up making movies with my home camera. I got ambitious in high school and made this two-hour movie just on video. He came and helped me out with that.

William Peterson

By 2000, he had embarked on an ambitious series of figure paintings, usually captioned with an aphorism from poetry or philosophy, and charged with stark physical and metaphysical deliberations.

Neal Asher

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

Noreena Hertz

Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn't the reason they had entrusted Kodak with their money. The donation was withdrawn.

William Campbell

There could be a number of reasons why the number of voters is larger in one ward than the other - there could be more people who actually register, or there could be a discrepancy in the number of children, ... One thing that surprised me is that there have been some huge (housing) developments in the city that I figured would have charged the demographics, but that's not been the case.

Bill Chapman

We were charged $150 for putting a piece of tissue paper in a carton.

Stanley Brand

He's going to face hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal expenses if he gets charged and decides to defend himself. It's hard to focus on that and focus on re-election.

Thomas Walker

The charges are ludicrous. To think Bas would be charged with something like this of all people is ridiculous.

Abdul Haq

This is a highly charged political show. It is really nothing to do with the legal process.

Gene Smith

We're sorry. We need to treat our visitors with class. But at the same time it's 105,000 people in a highly emotionally charged time frame. And there were a lot of Texas fans who had a great experience.

Ron Menor

Over a period of time, Hawaii consumers will realize savings at the pump. Hawaii prices will better reflect the prices that are being charged on the mainland and the world market.

Mark Foster

Owners of vehicles can be charged. It's like photo radar. The owner of the vehicle can be charged even if they weren't driving.

Gavin Patterson

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Randy Couture

The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

Fred Fetzer

I've been trying to figure out why he does this. But I can't. It's just more misleading information.

Richard Feast

I've been doing this for 35 years. I haven't been able to figure them out yet.

Kris Kristofferson

The world situation being what it is, I have a lot to say, ... And I figure as long as I've got something to talk about, I'll probably keep talking.

Bob Gray

The word 'flu' is always dangerous. So I figured I'd see what it was all about.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I like to keep my girlish figure

Dave Sass

First you have to figure out what you're going to do with it.

Jeff Bagwell

Eventually, he and I are going to have to sit down and talk. When that is, we'll figure it out at some point.

Lindsey Kildow

As long as I can physically do it, I can suck it up for a minute, 55 seconds.

Daniel Davis

This is a touchy-feely case. This is not an egregious kind of physical contact.

John Bromley

We really haven't physically merged the railroads at all,

Kofi Annan

and vulnerable to psychological as well as physical insecurities.

Jerry Hayes

We just shut down as a team, ... They got more physical and we shut down.

Tina Turner

Physical strength in a woman - thats what I am.

Richard P. Feynman

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Mark McHale

That wasn't physically getting beat. It was a miscommunication deal.

Larry Coker

He put a lot of pressure on, was very physical and I thought he did an outstanding job.

Juvenal

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

E. Hicks

We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

E. B. White

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Allen Tate

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Brandon McArthur

The series isn't over. Tomorrow is another day.

Scott Hatteberg

The whole series was tough. When I look back on things, yeah, I wish they were different.

Rahul Dravid

The way we've won this series is heartening.

James Van Der Beek

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Joe Berlinger

Each film stands on its own. But we have a series that hangs together and is visually arresting.

Pat Murray

We fumbled on our first series and then threw the interception on our second,

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.