Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katie McGrath

I'm a very ambitious girl. I'll go wherever there is a good part.

Chris Evert

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

Richard Greene

LBT pushes the state of the art in telescope performance, and it is a tremendous honor to be named the director. I'm excited by the challenge of completing the ambitious vision and satisfying the partners' scientific aspirations for this powerful, path-finding telescope.

Gail Collins

How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

Eydie Gorme

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

James Young

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

Augustus Hare

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Stacey Farber

When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of college in Toronto and wasn't happy there. I didn't have any friends in New York City, but I applied and got in. It was pretty overwhelming, but everyone in New York is so ambitious and creative.

Robert Silverberg

When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.'

David Brin

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

Denis Leary

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Dennis Lehane

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Karan Johar

I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

Jane Austen

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

Alan Lightman

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

Tahmoh Penikett

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

Tom Bissell

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

Laurie Levenson

The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.

Beatrix Potter

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Diego Rivera

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

Dennis Lehane

And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.

Tiffany Davis

We're sending a message. Just because we lost to Woodside doesn't mean we're not still ready. Don't underestimate us.

Debbie Pace

Madison never incorporated and didn't get its own government. We don't want to get lost in the shuffle.

Jasmine Guy

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

C. S. Lewis

Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the beloved… Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all.

Darcy Tucker

We've said since the time we lost the two Montreal games, we won't quit.

Calvin Coolidge

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

David Hilbert

Geometry is the most complete science.

David Hilbert

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

David Hume

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination.

Astro Teller

Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.

Charles Kettering

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles Kettering

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Charles Kettering

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Charles Kettering

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

Charles Kettering

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Jewel

If someone is willing to help you understand your own worth when you're vulnerable, that's a very touching thing. It makes you want to help other people.

Colleen Segarra

When you touch the animal, all you feel is bone.

Charles Kuralt

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Charles Ruff

I did not do those things. I did not touch those parts.

Charles Spurgeon

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.

Mark Hughes

Touch wood there has been no reaction, so we are very hopeful.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Charles Darwin

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

C. S. Lewis

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

Lisa Hall

She did what she could with what she had. She did a wonderful job.

Bob Roach

She's very confident. She's well-integrated with the other kids. She's a wonderful young lady.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?