Quotes About Aspiration

It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward, forward.

If Forbes would put a list of the 400 oldest Americans and I was on that one—that's the list I really want to be on.

Dreaming big is the key to happiness. Dreaming big is energizing. Dreaming big is fun. Can you remember a time in your life when you used to dream big? When you had things you wanted to accomplish and you weren't afraid to talk about them? Do you remember what it felt like to not have to be so "responsible"?

The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that's all you need for a major life change: a dream.

It is asking a lot. But when you're attempting to do something truly extraordinary, isn't it fair to ask a lot in return?

Normal people don't grow up to do the sorts of jobs we do, Jessica

Help me. But no one had. And the Bonhams had a nice big house and drove a Bentley. Sometimes Archer just wanted to shoot life right in the face.

Technically, I'm right up there, I think. But the really great artists have something—I don't think anyone can really quantify it—that I don't. But that's okay. I'm happy with

eight-story building. It looked like a place where young people just starting out or older people downsizing might live mixed in with a healthy dose of middle-aged people who had simply never fully realized their goals in life.

You could have been a great scientist or something. Or a writer.

Reimagine themselves. When I was a little girl, I would go to the one little store in town and leaf through the fashion and movie magazines and dream about…something better.

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing. - Sweet Thing

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

It wasn't that I wanted to be a writer; I just didn't want to be stupid.

If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.

Even the greatest of heroes and men Are less than what they might have been. —a saying of Mystarria

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.

Gentlemen- by which I mean, of course, latter adolescents who aspire to manhood gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is. Such endurance is, as it happens, the distillate of what is, today, in this world neither you nor I have made, heroism. Heroism

Everyone should get at least one good look at the eyes of a man who finds himself rising toward what he wants to pull down to himself.

That what unlocks you, even today, is what you want to want. In what you value. And what you value's married to those certain things you just won't do . And here's a cliché that's earned its status as a cliché: whether you're free or locked up depends, all and only, on what you want. What you have matters about as much as the color of your sky. Or your bars.

Un chiste común dice que en Colombia los ricos quieren ser ingleses, los intelectuales quieren ser franceses, la clase media quiere ser norteamericana y los pobres quieren ser mexicanos.

Future? Homer said. He was a little embarrassed because all his life, from day to day, he had been busy mapping out a future, even if it was only a future for the next day. Well, he said, I don't know for sure, but I guess I'd like to be somebody some day.

My soul is in the sky.