Quotes About Aspiration

all the poets wanted to get disability insurance it was better than immortality.

Now, I thought, pushing my cart along, I have this job. Is this to be it? No wonder men robbed banks. There were too many demeaning jobs. Why the hell wasn't I a superior court judge or a concert pianist? Because it took training and training cost money. But I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding

Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting. My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

that boy was ready for his life to come, he would undoubtedly be highly successful, the lying little prick.

I'm quitting. Quitting? Yes, you can't blame a man for wanting to better himself.

I drive toward it not wanting it getting it getting it as the cat stretches yawns and rolls over into another dream.

it's the dream that keeps you going then and now.

I decided to put on my new suit and go out and find a woman, a beautiful one, of course, to support a man of my still-hidden talents.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.     6

listen, he said, you ever seen a bunch of crabs in a bucket? no, I told him. well, what happens is that now and then one crab will climb up on top of the others and begin to climb toward the top of the bucket, then, just as he's about to escape another crab grabs him and pulls him back down. really? I asked. really, he said, and this job is just like that, none of the others want anybody to get out of here. that's just the way it is

You can't blame a man for wanting to better himself.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn't like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybody else wanted.

People don't need love. What they need is success in form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.

Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life.

Let me ask you, what are you planning to do with the rest of your days?

others are accepted at a highly selective school but choose to attend a less selective college or university instead.

I had always dreamed of being a professional escort but never thought that there was any real money in it.

I didn't really spend much time with anyone my own age during high school because I believed my true calling would be representing New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, and if that didn't work out, I could always fall back on becoming an Olympic pole vaulter.

There's nothing wrong with dreaming about accomplishing great things, as long as that desire isn't focused on one's own glory.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

Remember that person you wanted to be? There's still time.

Remember that person you wanted to be? There's still time." She wanted to believe that; she wanted to believe it almost desperately. She wanted to be different from what she was—to be anything but what she was. But every day that grew less and less likely. Life, it seemed to her in the back of the cab, was nothing but a narrowing of opportunities. It was a funnel.

I hope I can make more miracles, more dreams come true.