Quotes About Aspiration

As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

It is just nice to be able to tick off all of the events I've won and hopefully one day be able to complete them all.

I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was... well, pretty Hollywood.

When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see me and that would be my ticket to Hollywood. I wrote a musical; an acting coach saw it and put me on his course for free while I wrote for his company.

I've always been a fan of the VMAs, and I've always worked hard just to get a ticket to go to the VMAs.

I've got to literally write my own ticket.

I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.

We didn't have money put away in the bank for a college fund; soccer was our lottery ticket, our gamble.

My memories of London Fashion Week are of starting out and not getting many tickets for fashion shows, but wanting to see them so much that I'd sneak in with my friends, people like Pat McGrath and Craig McDean.

I want to be a star. It doesn't mean that I'll act any less. My performance will be at par, but I want to be a star. I want the audience to spend their hard-earned money on my tickets without doubting. And when that day comes, I'll believe I'm a star.

I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.

I was always aware of the ticking clock of time, always. I was very aware that I had a lot to do, and I wanted to do those things in the best possible way that I could and probably the biggest way I possibly could.

That's part of fashion's promise: that a girlfriend or boyfriend or a promotion are just one tie or sweater or pair of shoes away.

When I became 'The American Dream,' they needed a hero down here. I had no money - I couldn't buy a car without being tied under - but I had to have a Cadillac with blue stars on the hood no matter what it cost because just driving in it will set how they look at me and perceive this guy; they'll know.

Once fraternities became tied to power and leadership, the powerful and would-be-leaders wanted to join.

My goal is to be the No. 1 golfer in the world, and I want to chase Tiger.

I was someone who was trying to make it into the world of glamour. On the other hand, Tiger has also been an athlete and a sports person. He is making his own choices instead of being under my shadow.

I didn't even dream of going to college. College was not in my definition. If somebody told me I was going to play for the Missouri Tigers in 2009, I would laugh at them.