Famous Quotes & Sayings

On one level it is quite an ambitious sprawling narrative.

McDonald's is proud of the tangible difference we have made for the environment in just 10 years. As we head into the new century, McDonald's will continue to set new, ambitious targets for environmental progress.

No, not really. Even with this ambitious schedule, there is plenty of time to do other things. We just want to do it early and often and around the state.

Jacques Diouf

None will reach the more ambitious (1996) World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people.

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.

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.

Sam Altman

I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be.

Herbie Hancock

I brought my 40 years of jazz experience to the table, ... but I wanted to make something more ambitious than a little box.

Scott Turow

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

Guus Hiddink

I'm an ambitious coach and I want to be successful here in Russia. There is a lot of technical potential within Russia's national team and if the players are aware of their potential I think they can increase their level.

David Vitter

I'd very much like to explore that, ... I know it's a big idea and it's very ambitious and costly, but I think we need to explore that, particularly a southern route going through Ascension and Livingston and connecting I-12 to I-10.

I have always had two qualities: I'm very ambitious and very persistent. I decided that this little joke had potential.

I am excited to be able to congratulate the men and women who have worked hard over this past year and demonstrated the outstanding work that Greeks do at Penn State. We are hopeful that these chapters will be pioneers and role models as we move forward with our ambitious plans for enhancing the Greek experience at Penn State.

We should maintain the momentum of the negotiations, rather than lower the ambitious target set by the Doha talks.

Cristiano Ronaldo

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

Clive Barker

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

Christopher Walken

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

Amy Winehouse

I'm not very ambitious at all.

David Mamet

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

Darren Criss

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

Anthony Minghella

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

I wouldn't be nearly as ambitious if it weren't for my family. My parents are the coolest parents to have ever parented.

What we have here is a bright, talented and ambitious group of players.

From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men.

Dan Futterman

He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful. I didn't want a biography that worships the title character. I wanted a movie that portrays the truth.

Dan Futterman

He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful,

He was very much a good leader at Harvard and was pushing Harvard in a positive direction. He had very ambitious plans for Harvard, and they were for the most part plans with which I agreed.

Alice Stewart

He says he's got too many important things to do than to assist an ambitious candidate to continue to milk the press for free publicity.

He had to get known on other issues because he was ambitious and he wanted to run for congress.

He is a very ambitious man, he thinks he has a role to play in the future of the country.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

Michael Learned

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

Orison Swett Marden

If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.