Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stacey Farber

When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of college in Toronto and wasn't happy there. I didn't have any friends in New York City, but I applied and got in. It was pretty overwhelming, but everyone in New York is so ambitious and creative.

Robert Silverberg

When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.'

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.

Sam Altman

Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

Eydie Gorme

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

James Young

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

David Stern

We are pleased to have these renowned franchises represent the NBA in the most ambitious international competition in league history.

Lydia Leonard

Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.

James Vincent McMorrow

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

John Maroon

We want to reach out not just to sports fans, but parents who are involved in their kids' lives.

Deborah Levine

We want to raise awareness. For those who find out they are positive, we want to get them into care. For those who are negative, but are involved in high-risk behavior, we want to get them into prevention programs so that they learn to keep themselves safe. Unfortunately, there are too many people out there who don't think they are at risk.

Adam Gilchrist

We have to get our priorities right. It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.

Jamie Shea

We have reports that soldiers were also involved in the casualties, not simply civilians.

The Mighty Hannibal

I was involved with the Nation of Islam. I wasn't doing no marching. I've been involved with the Nation for 50 years. Back in those days, they tried to label us as black Muslims. There are Muslims all over the world. It doesn't have to be black; it doesn't matter what color he is.

Kathryn Harrold

I'm always saying I won't get involved with an actor again, but then I realize how silly that is. The men I meet most often are actors.

Kenneth Branagh

I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground.

Paul Hawley

We're going to shoot the video in Spain, and there'll be water involved -- and I'm going to leave it at that.

Greg Brown

We're going to have 13 different departments involved in this deployment

Jason Anderson

When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need.

Bill Janklow

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

Alan Cayetano

Mr. Chairman, let us not railroad this hearing.

John Thomas

The only one that will work is a rail system, but the routes need change.

Jack Ellis

But first and foremost, ... it's for transportation, and we know that rail is in Macon's future, just like it's in Macon's past, and we have to be ready for it.

Dan Aykroyd

I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

Jim Clarke

We've got the tile like the old tile in the subway, ... It's like it was in the old railroad station.

Anthony Quinn

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Carol Leifer

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Leonardo Alcivar

We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Milan Hejduk

We used to play together two or three years ago, and it worked really well, ... There's no reason why it shouldn't work again.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.