Famous Quotes & Sayings

Placido Domingo

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

Joseph Kosinski

So Disney has their full support behind it, which is great, but again it's got to be the right story. It's got to be a script that's up to snuff and worth going back for. The idea's there, the ambition's there, the excitement's there; but we need to have all the pieces in place before they would ever pull the trigger on that.

Joss Whedon

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

Kevin Kline

Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

Kevin James

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

Katy Perry

Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it is!" That drive can't be held down. I have a lot of ambition.

Katy Perry

I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.

Katy Perry

I have a lot of ambition.

Ralph Steadman

I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on their side, and can therefore instigate such atrocities in the name of their own sense of right and wrong.

Rachel Sklar

Friendships that are first grounded in the shared professional ambitions - social stuff is built around that - and then you see people pulling each other up as they rise.

Rafe Spall

Being kind is the most important thing Ive ever been taught. Thats what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

Rafe Spall

My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

Thom Yorke

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy

Theophrastus

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Theophrastus

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Lewis H. Lapham

What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.

Lewis H. Lapham

Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.

Josephine Hart

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

Juliette Binoche

My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

Joyce Brothers

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider

Joshua Lederberg

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

Joshua Reynolds

One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.

Joshua Reynolds

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

Josh Billings

Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

Karl Lagerfeld

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

Karl Lagerfeld

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

Julius Caesar

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

Kanye West

This dope money here is Lil Treys scholarship Cause aint no to tuition for havin no ambition And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home

Panayiotis Zavos

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

Paul McCartney

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory...

George MacDonald

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

George Lois

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.