Audacious Quotations

You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the real world? That's what it felt like when I first read 'Watchmen' - like someone was taking a can opener to my head to make room for Moore's audacious brilliance.

I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I am particularly proud to represent such an audacious archetype of woman.

We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.

The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.

When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the state legislature. However, we worked across party lines and enacted historic reforms. Working together, we cut taxes by more than $600 million.

My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

Fortune favors the audacious.

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.

Having gold and diamonds in your mouth is the most audacious statement you could make. It's an in-your-face way of saying: We're hip-hop.

We thought we had the potential and we were audacious enough to believe that we could humanize, democratize and make the university more accountable to all the citizens of Washington. But it appears we did not.

The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'

I'm a humble guy, but I'm audacious.

Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

When someone steps out and says something as audacious as, 'This is wrong' or 'This is right,' you open up yourself to all sorts of criticism and perhaps abuse by some.

Up until today, the North Carolina Research Campus has been an audacious idea on the part of David Murdock. Now it will lead to a more prosperous future.

Bob was an inspirational storyteller, an audacious fighter and an unpretentious mystic. He was serious about saving the world while always maintaining a sense of humor.

audacious -- it's not walking politically correct lines.

This is a big, audacious plan put together by obviously brilliant people. But you missed the boat. We don't need a rail system. We need housing.

They say Shaun's similar to Brett but, at the end of the day, they're wicket-takers. I'd love to go, don't get me wrong, but with Shaun there's a bloke who bowls 150kmh while swinging the ball, and gets audacious reverse-swing. Shaun bowled some of the fastest deliveries I've seen last Sunday.

It was quite audacious and highly inappropriate. What was he afraid of being asked?

It's very audacious of them. It is bound to increase Apple's market share. The whole blurring of the Mac and the PC is complete. It now raises the bar for manufacturers of not only notebooks, but the living room and desktop PCs.

It's been audacious to try to write a title like this, ... I've always done that. Always reach for more than you can.

It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.

Instead of the bull in the china shop, Bolton's more like the little boy who is audacious enough to say the U.N. has no clothes.

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

I'd heard the first track on the Rufus Wainwright record (Want One), Oh What A World, which is worth the admission fee alone, ... It's just the most audacious thing I've heard in a long time. It's on a sort of Pet Sounds level. It's refreshing to hear that kind of thing. So Marius' philosophy is very much 'more is more,' whereas mine is 'less is more.'

I am on a voyage of discovery. I search for those of you who will go on a great adventure . . . if you are one of those audacious few willing to dare and then to share . . . then come with me.

My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...

You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.

Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.