Quotes About Ambition

Y hagas lo que hagas, por mucho que lo intentes, no puedes dejar de soñar.

I don't want to be the And Peggy of my own story. I want to be the Hamilton.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

Would you like to be a doctor when you grow up?" I ask her. She looks at me oddly. "I'm already a doctor," she says.

The wife has begun planning a secret life. In it, she is an art monster. She puts on yoga pants and says she is going to yoga, then pulls off onto a country lane and writes in tiny cramped writing on a grocery list She thinks she should go off her meds maybe so as to write more fluidly. Possibly this is not a good idea. But only possibly.

Il mio piano era non sposarmi mai. No, io volevo diventare un mostro d'arte. Le donne non diventano mai mostri d'arte, perché i veri mostri d'arte si preoccupano solo d'arte e mai di cose terrene. Nabokov non si chiudeva nemmeno l'ombrello, era Vera che gli leccava i francobolli.

Q: How did we end up here? A: We can, if need be, ransack the whole globe, penetrate into the bowels of the earth, descend to the bottom of the deep, travel to the farthest regions of this world, to acquire wealth, to increase our knowledge, or even only to please our eye and fancy. (William Derham, 1711)

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

I understood it immediately. With each step up the ladder, the step beneath it disappeared, so that the higher she rose in life, the more vertiginous her position.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

For a man who could have anything he wanted... why do I have the sense that you rarely get what you want?

would like to see a fund set up that does nothing but pay for great public buildings, follies, laser shows, towers, fountains, airships, aqueducts. Big, expensive stuff designed solely to make us go 'wow'. I even have a name for this fund. We could call it the lottery.

reaching for the 'Yes

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

They keep the position of head of state out of the hands of those who want it just to gratify their ambition.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

My guests never predicted nuclear boiling annihilation, otherwise they surely would have posed in more pretty-making fashions, chasing the ever-present ambition to be the most becoming of the dead.