Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Maduro

I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.

Nicholas Haslam

I have always aspired towards other people's looks. When I was young, I loved teddy boys; I thought they looked wonderful. Then I was a cowboy in Arizona, really for the clothes! I had a ranch for five years; I had chaps made of bearskin.

Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for.

Lyor Cohen

Everything gets thrown off depending on whether the Packers are playing. I grew up in L.A., and we had a terrible quarterback, Roman Gabriel. When I was 11 years old, I fired him, I fired the Rams, and I picked a quarterback I aspired to be. That was Bart Starr. That's how long I've been a Packers fan.

Ben Gibbard

What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had.

We didn't have a lot going for us, growing up in this little flat town called Plainview (Texas) and so I never really aspired to much, ... I think when I got in the Navy and realized how bad life could be as an enlisted man I developed a little bit of motivation.

My father was a big boxing fan, and he used to say the best fighters are the ones who come through the ranks and pay their dues. I'm here today because I came up through the ranks. My dream was always to be a head coach in the Big East. That's all I ever aspired to do.

Joel Murray

I have a famous brother, and I see what his life's like. He can stay places 15 minutes, and then he's got to leave. So I've seen what it's like to be famous, and I haven't really aspired to be a huge mega-star - not that I've had that opportunity.

Alessia Cara

I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.

Asa Gray

I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.

Stephen Gaghan

My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn't do any writing - I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class.

He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher

Aimee Mullins

If you would ask me at 15 years old if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh and bone legs, I wouldn't have hesitated for a second. I aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. But if you ask me today, I'm not so sure.

Nick Saban

When you have reached the pinnacle as a player of what you have always aspired for, what's your motivation? ... Some guys just work their tail off because they want to be good. It's important to them and their pride. Those guys have a better chance to succeed than the guy who did all of that to get here, and now all of a sudden the things that got him here don't seem to be important anymore.

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,

Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed the need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr Hegdewar in 1925, did the same work Vivekanand aspired for - making men,

Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr Hegdewar in 1925, did the same work Vivekanand aspired for - making men,

John was a role model for me who led to a lot of the reasons why I continued running after high school and college. He was the guy who most of the (local) teens aspired to be like as a runner.

Bobby Flay

I was not such a great student, ... So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.

Victor LaValle

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

Jon Daniels

The last four years have just been a whirlwind learning curve for me, and John has made it a lot easier. It didn't take me long to realize my future wasn't going to be on the field. So this is what I have aspired to for quite a while.

William Shakespeare

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

Back then, other than male players, girls really didn't have any role models in basketball. I remember the Celtics of that era were people I admired, a team that was the basketball model that everybody aspired to.

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.

You hit one shot and it might be two or three holes before you hit another one. Raymond really didn't have a putt on that back nine until he had the putt to win all the money on 17. It's a little different thing. It's a very tough format to hold your patience and the patience to keep going. And Raymond aspired to that.

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.

Jon Daniels

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.