Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Orlando

Erika is a huge role model for me and an inspiration. I'm growing into myself and a much stronger gymnast and maybe one day, people will aspire to be like me.

William Shakespeare

O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds which too untimely here did scorn the earth.

The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.

I've always looked upon his career and the things he's done very favorably. Any young, up-and-coming coach, you do aspire to do a certain thing a certain way, and he was always one of those guys that I looked up to, and I still look up to.

John Taylor

Sega is one of the handful of companies that can aspire to be one of the global leaders in game software, ... They can be a king maker for a platform.

Jim Courier

The writing's been on the wall. Tennis takes us all over the world. People aspire to be the players they see on TV, and that's where dreams come from.

I sort of followed in his footsteps out to Hollywood, and aspired in the way he did. I was wonderful to come home and make a movie.

Mike Singletary

Thomas lived a life we can all aspire to and learn from.

John Adams

We aspired to build the most environmentally friendly office we could, so it feels terrific to have the Green Building Council award us their highest rating,

Eric Hyman

There's no question that the Mountain West Conference wants to be a national program. Their focus is on the BCS. This is what they aspire to be, and these are the aspirations of TCU.

Dan Wheldon

That's what really got me passionate about American motor sports. Ever since that point, I've kind of aspired to being out here.

Jon Daniels

I'm ecstatic about this. This is what I've aspired to be for a long time.

It was a great coincidence, and many of the people I met that day became great friends. The best disabled skiers in the world that gave me something to aspire to. I was honored to ski next to them.

Robert Sheehan

I never aspired to be in a band, but being onstage is a very cool feeling. It's like you're the lord of the room. It's hard to croon and run around doing big scissor kicks while also trying to play, though. I'm still mastering that.

In Florida we aspire for our third-graders to read. In China, they speak three languages. Public education will not improve by reformation, it will only improve by transformation when you say our system no longer works.

In Florida, we aspire for our third-graders to read. In China, they speak three languages.

India is poised today to enter a new phase in its foreign policy. We aspire to be a permanent member of the Security Council. We are demonstrating a growing capability to shoulder regional and global responsibilities.

Maajid Nawaz

In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

Daniel Snyder

Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.

Being a head coach in this league is something I've aspired to do ever since I became an assistant with the Titans (in 1997). I've always wanted to be the best at every level. I'm not getting impatient; I'm just determined. I believe I've got a lot to offer if I get that opportunity.

Before you edit your closet and spend money on new clothes, you need to know what it is style-wise that makes you comfortable. We're all a combination, but every person has a core style that they lean toward or aspire to. We encourage people to commit to being consistent. Fashion should work for you; you shouldn't work for fashion.

It has to be on the fast track. It can't be everything that we aspire it to be.

Ashley Jensen

I missed Britain. I'm from here and I never aspired to go to L.A. - it sort of happened by default. I loved being there. I found it a little bit difficult at first, but I found my way.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Robin Givhan

In the '50s, women aspired to dress like their mothers - this polished, controlled, formal way of dressing. Then all of a sudden in the '60s, going into the '70s, they stopped dressing like their mothers.

Joel Kinnaman

For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.

Joe Greene

I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

David Rakoff

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

Larry David

I aspire to be like that character. He's honest. It's the things I'm thinking but not saying.

I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things.

Michael Kelly

In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.

He brings all the intangibles that we aspire for in our players. He is a winner and served as captain of his club team that captured a national championship. He was the glue that held everything together. He has a dynamic personality that will improve the competitive drive on our entire team.

Jane Smiley

he aspired to produce something simultaneously less vulgar and less formless than the novels of the great Victorians, and ... he wished his work to elevate the novel to the status of art.