Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Stern

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

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.

Natalie Massenet

Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

Matthew Caws

When we were 14, it was Cost of Living. Then later, it was Because Because Because. That band was real ambitious and networking, looking for a deal. And that sucked, so we broke up. Nada Surf was formed for fun.

Rob Portman

To move Doha to a successful and ambitious conclusion, we must all make contributions that includes services, manufacturing, agriculture and other areas of the round. We need contributions from developed countries like the United States, but also developing countries. Every country must do its part.

Barbra Streisand

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

Sam Altman

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

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.

James Vincent McMorrow

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

Juvenal

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Gail Collins

How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

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.

Katie McGrath

I'm a very ambitious girl. I'll go wherever there is a good part.

Chris Evert

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

Antonio Banderas

I suppose that I am ambitious.

Olive was a beautiful and ambitious young girl and went to stay with an aunt in New York City, where she took a job in a department store. In 1914, she entered and won The Most Beautiful Girl in New York City contest run by celebrated commercial artist Howard Chandler Christy.

Augustus Hare

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

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.'

Richard Greene

LBT pushes the state of the art in telescope performance, and it is a tremendous honor to be named the director. I'm excited by the challenge of completing the ambitious vision and satisfying the partners' scientific aspirations for this powerful, path-finding telescope.

Patricia Heaton

She's ambitious and she's become very pragmatic, but her roots are in the family vineyard and in family. She's lost that a little bit, and she's been burned in romance and has taken this kind of no-nonsense approach to everything. Her life gets turned around when romance rears its ugly head. It's confusing to her.

Jean de la Bruyere

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

John Carroll

When you apply direct financial incentives to ambitious and noted research and development projects, like what you see with what Maryland and the universities have going on, it's a compelling model for biotech. I don't know how effective Arizona has been in that respect.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.

Lucy Punch

People ask why I always play crazy people and free spirits. I guess it is because I like to have fun. But I am more ambitious than your average free spirit. This job is hard enough that, without drive and hard work, you will never make it work.

Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.

Yale?s capacity to fulfill its ambitious mission has been greatly enhanced by their superb stewardship of the endowment,

Michael Collins

We are looking for an ambitious family with a sincere desire to build a new life for themselves, ... We hope our success with this project will be a model for other small towns. If we all get together, we could offer at least one family a new start.

Anna Akana

The more you create, the more ambitious you become with your projects. Short films were a direct result of over 200 web series sketches and vlogs. After you create enough 2-minute videos, you start to wonder what else there is. Deadlines and discipline and quantity with a focus on quality have always been what keeps me going.

Cathleen Schine

There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.

Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.

Robert Adamson

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Claudio Ranieri

Newcastle is one of the best clubs in England. They are a good, ambitious team and that is very important for me. I am looking for another good job with a club who has ambition.