Quotes About Aspiration

If you go to my shows, 90 percent of my fans are females between the ages of eleven and eighteen. People look at me like a living mannequin; all of these girls want pink hair. They want the cool makeup and contact lenses and cool clothes.

I always wanted pink hair.

I think my deepness came from Pink Floyd. And Jimi Hendrix was my idol. I always wanted to be like him.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

If I could play Jean Valjean, I think that would be the pinnacle.

I think playing for England is the pinnacle of every young English player's career.

For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that's been the pinnacle for me with cricket.

After 'Game of Thrones,' having a character like that, that's like the pinnacle of your career.

We think it is a really important part of your journey, as an international player, that you come in and you want it to feel like it's the pinnacle of the game. That you want to come back into that environment. You don't want to think, 'Well, I'd much prefer playing for Sussex,' or your county.

Winning the Open in general would mean the world to me. It's the one championship that I've dreamed about winning more than any other, because you know it's the pinnacle of golf for a British player and I think to do it at St Andrews? It doesn't get any better than that.

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.

R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.

My family was always really encouraging, but acting was always something I thought was a bit of a pipe dream.

It's so odd because I don't even know if I'm cut out for it, but being a movie star guy, I sort of end up gravitating toward the Coen brothers. That's one of the reasons my wife and I moved to L.A.: that however much of a pipe dream that would be, I moved to L.A. because I'd love to work with the Coen brothers.

Maybe playing in the NHL would be pretty nice, but that's more of a pipe dream for me.

I never imagined even playing in the NFL. It seemed like a pipe dream.

Once I saw Roddy Piper I knew exactly what I was going to be doing when I grew up.

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

The destination is the belt, but you never arrive at just the belt. You're always on the way to something else. You never truly arrive anywhere. But winning the belt, it's a nice pit stop.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

I love singing, so I want to see how far I can take it. I love the challenge, and I won't be happy until I have a wall full of gold discs and seven huge world tours under my belt.

For an acquisitive Wall Streeter, the money saved by choosing a practical car can be put toward the cost of some pricier means of mobility - like a plane.

When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.