Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Houllier

Lyon's biggest rival is Lyon itself. We need to stay vigilant. Our ambition is to win the treble.

Ellis Peters

Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. Not here - not now.

Peter Mandelson

My fear is that in lowering expectations for Hong Kong, we will cause the overall ambition for the round to fall.

David Dein

None of these games are easy. All the other teams are hard and want to win. Nothing is easy in this draw, but it is our ambition to prove we are one of the best clubs in Europe - and we have yet to get past the quarter-finals, so we have something to prove.

Greg Evans

My ambition is the immediate page of the book I am currently working on. The next word to follow the last. A fresh new idea.

Brian White

My ambition has always been to give them good opportunities and if coming into the family business suited them, then great.

Adam Rickitt

My greatest ambition may sound rather like something from a greeting card, but it is a genuine desire to serve a local community and be a local MP.

Marilyn Monroe

My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances.

Stevie Jackson

When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music.

Terry Eagleton

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Terry Eagleton

What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .

Terry Eagleton

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Terry Eagleton

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

Terry Eagleton

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.

Terry Eagleton

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Nancy Pearcey

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Karen Armstrong

He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts 'but to experience certain emotions and to be put in a certain disposition.' Hence his famous literary theory that tragedy effected a purification (katharsis) of the emotions of terror and pity that amounted to an experience of rebirth.

Mason Cooley

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Richard P. Feynman

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Tom Waits

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Dennis Potter

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Dennis Haysbert

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

Denis Diderot

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

Edgar Allan Poe

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

David Lindsay

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

August Wilson

I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things,