Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Brown

I realize I'm an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

John McCallum

Clearly they are ambitious in their thinking, ... They are definitely, seriously interested.

Harrison Ford

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.

(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.

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.

Mary Stewart

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in powerthey fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

Damien Hirst

But I'm not ambitious for myself, or for attention.

Guy Kawasaki

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing,

Polybius

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.

There is a really positive and ambitious feeling around the club at the moment, and everyone is committed to continuing that improvement and pushing for silverware.

Some tell us that Hawaii is half and half, half 'study nonstop' and half 'don't know what studying means.' Others, however, feel that 'while there's a handful of students who have ambitious career objectives are focused on studying, the typical student is focused mainly on the beach or going to the clubs.'

People think it's a little ambitious but we feel we need to be prepared for the maximum and not get caught unprepared. We have committed to do this.

The three partners in this ambitious venture share a determination to see that international guests are pleasantly overwhelmed by their experience at Baha Mar.

John Hurt

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

It's a very ambitious redesign of creating a new view of technology.

It's a very ambitious project. I think it's going to be a great project for the neighborhood and for the city.

It's a very ambitious plan and a very good plan for the town. We need senior housing in town, and this has a very nice village feel to it.

It's a very ambitious deadline. The governor has given us direction to make it a priority.

Simon Williams

It's a typically ambitious purchase for a high-profile Dubai organization to make.

Carla Gugino

It's a really ambitious show and that to me is really exciting, ... It's something that really feels like its own, while paying homage to other things.

Young people propose ambitious projects that may not work, so they don't get funded. Everybody else is proposing something where they've already done 90 percent of the work. It's one reason why progress is so incremental.

James D'arcy

I'm not really very ambitious.

I'm after someone who is young and ambitious but who has enough experience. I do not want someone who hasn't coached before.

Ricky Whittle

I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.

Hippolyte Taine

There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

Hayley Atwell

I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

Tom Hardy

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

Pharrell Williams

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.

The market is in a strong financial position, but is ambitious to move forward to the next stage. I am delighted to have the opportunity to lead Lloyd's on that journey.

Mahatma Gandhi

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

Kevin Allen

It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that which you are in business to accomplish. The moment this happens the downward spiral begins.

Terry Gilliam

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

Terry Eagleton

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world