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.

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Alan Rudolph

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

Bill Reynolds

There are a lot of Civil War guys around that nobody knows where they're buried.

Kemal Saiki

There is a limit on our resources and the priorities we have are protecting civilians and supporting the transitional process.

Sue Monk Kidd

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Neal McLaughlin

When you're traveling around, it's very confusing, especially if you're pointing to one race and something happens and you switch up to go to another race. Maybe the medication was fine for the first race, but now you're excluded from the next race.

David Chapman

Mr. Matthew thankfully has been excluded as a suspect, ... He has been conclusively shown not to have any involvement whatsoever in the sexual assault.

Jacques Rogge

If any sport wants to come in, one will have to go. But no sport will be excluded before 2012.

Franz Beckenbauer

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

Kim Gandy

There is no job that women should be excluded from because of their gender. If you can do the job, you should have an opportunity to get the job. If you can't, you shouldn't be there, male or female.

Frank MacKay

There is no room in our party for such outrageous racism. We are a party of inclusion and the only people that should be excluded are those who preach this kind of hate.

Tucker Max

I'm a decent-looking guy, but I've never walked into a room and got a girl because of how I looked. Look, I'm never excluded because of my looks. I just don't stand out.

Auguste Comte

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

Teresa Kerry

This evening, I want to acknowledge and honor the women of this world, whose wise voices for much too long have been excluded and discounted, ... It is time for the world to hear women's voices -- in full and at last.

Reg Alcock

The reality is, every single expense that was incurred was within the policy of the Mint, was vetted by their senior financial officer and was approved.

Nick Clements

We did get our last paychecks, and I did receive part of the travel expenses that are owed to me. I am waiting to see if they are going to reimburse me for the rest of my travel expenses.

Russell Walters

When you start motivating people to work faster, you've got to keep safety in there because you can work faster at the expense of safety.

Richard Vespucci

We would question the necessity of an expense like that.

James Farrell

Shopping is a pleasurable experience for many people; there's actually a hormonal release that makes us feel good. For some, shopping is a vacation, ... And the mall operators know that and spare little expense in market research to get them inside to shop.

Proverb

The price of a laugh is too high, if it is raised at the expense of another

Alan Kopit

Three to six months' worth of savings for living expenses is the minimum every household should have, no matter its income. Any less can leave people vulnerable to serious financial woes if they hit unexpected difficulties, like a job loss or medical problem. It's a good habit for all working people to put away a reasonable portion of their take-home pay into some form of liquid savings.

Frederic Bastiat

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

William M. Thackeray

When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.

Melissa Schrader

We have received very nice feedback about the Web site.

Tove Lo

In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.

Todrick Hall

People go to YouTube to laugh, and as a YouTuber, your job is to figure out a niche and feed people what they want to see. Now that I know what kind of stuff people want to see, then I will keep going down that road and creating videos that are going to make people laugh.

Eric Balfour

By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.

Michael Schenker

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

Nonso Anozie

I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.

Karin Uhlich

We regulate locations that give food to the poor, now we can regulate those that feed on the poor.

Kim Newman

I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and sucks their lifeblood, transforming as well as feeding off them.

Todd White

We're starting to get enough good feedback that we feel we'll have all this money pulled together in the next six months.

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Mark Davies

Shane has resumed light training and hopes to progress this with a view to being included for the Ospreys match.

Uma Bharti

She hopes that she will get support from the BJP. I am supporting her because I don't think that I am separated from BJP.

Melissa Wilson

My hopes right now are to be able to walk again, because you realize how important walking really is to you.

Richard Hills

My hopes for Newcastle are the same as they were before Bath,

Samuel E. Morison

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Haley Jowle

I didn't want to get my hopes up. He might have said that I wasn't his daughter.

Joe Haldeman

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Jahangir Khan

Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.

Ghulam Vhora

It is a question of livelihood for 5,000 families. We are all jobless.

David Chang

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Oscar Wilde

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Dada Vaswani

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Marianne Williamson

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

Niels Bohr

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Robert M. Pirsig

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

Joseph Hume

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Stephen Covey

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

Tom Rockwell

We know the San Andreas produces earthquakes every 200 years. It's been a long time.

Henry Markram

You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.

Howard Schnellenberger

It's no secret that this state produces high-quality players, ... And there is no reason why every team in the state can't become a winning one.

Plutarch

The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Edmund Phelps

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

George Miller

We're tight. We secured the property for the future, which is what we need.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

Charles Baudelaire

That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.

Bruce Sterling

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Elizabeth I

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

Blaise Pascal

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Edward McKendree Bounds

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

Edward Gibbon

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

John Milton

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Arabian Proverb

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Gila Reinstein

We want them to feel very welcome and to be as acclimated as soon as possible.

Joe Papin

We started out really quick, using our speed. As soon as they scored the first goal, we went a little flat.

Michael Faraday

Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)

Brian Jacques

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Sooner or later, I'll be punctual.

Jon Daniels

We'd like to get him up here as soon as possible.

David Montgomery

We'd like to do it as soon as possible.

Sadhu Johnston

We're monitoring the equipment. As soon as that's done and the weather breaks, we'll be up there.