Quotes About Aspiration

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

You must have wished a million times to be normal." "No." "No?" "I've wished I had two heads. Or that I was invisible. I've wished for a fish's tail instead of legs. I've wished to be more special." "Not normal?" "Never.

New York was for people too hungry for life to be anywhere else.

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.

I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds

The jailer is another kind of captive—is the jailer envious of his prisoner's dreams?

Tutto fu ambito e tutto fu tentato. Quel che non fu fatto io lo sognai e tanto era l'ardore che il sogno eguagliò l'atto.

éblouie par son désir, entraînée par l'illusion, elle avait rêvé l'impossible.

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

I love that world more, I think, because it is perfectible. Because I have perfected it. The actual world is the random garbage fire it always is. There's not a goddamn thing I can do about the actual world's code.

How long does a dream have to last before it's just life?

You love being Ruby's mother, but loving Ruby does not stop you from wanting things for yourself.

I want this job." "Many people do, my girl." "How do I get it?" Maya asks. "Reading, as aforementioned." Maya nods. "I do that." "A good chair." "I have one of those." "Then you're well on your way," Daniel tells her before setting her back on the ground. "I'll

The way he put it to Marx: "This summer is my last chance to do something truly grand.

Perché farla, una cosa, se non credi che abbia un grande potenziale.