“It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.”
V. S. Naipaul
Related All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the ma... ISADORA DUNCAN This is an idea that should have come a long time ago. DEBRA WILSON When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a g... WERNER HERZOG I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM I hate that it had to come down to this. It's so sad. He should have been in prison a long time ago,... KATIE JOHNSON It is definitely annoying that straight (and white, for that matter) is the default, and that the on... BECKY ALBERTALLI I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN I could do it, ... I've actually figured out a way, even though the characters have gotten older, to... QUENTIN TARANTINO I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ... ALAN HANSEN We should have fouled right away, but it shouldn't have come to this. Boxing out is something that w... DWAYNE CASEY I think that we may have to be content with a little less, ... But if that happens, it does not mean... CELSO AMORIM If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je... CRAIG GROESCHEL What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL I think it's absurd that they think the authors should have to come to them to opt out of the databa... PETER SALUS That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty.... DEYTH BANGER Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do
something crazy to remember your alive! NEIL OLSSON I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer shoul... JOHN BOYNE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether... CARL JUNG The truth is I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act. I feel the fil... BILLY CRUDUP Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like... ARIEL LEVY I used to think to myself that I was the last kind of person who should have a guardian angel, but t... REBECCA MCNUTT To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to... ALEXANDRA CHANDO Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn'... DREW GODDARD If I could do anything, I think a theme park. Because the world of Lisa Frank really is a world. And... LISA FRANK There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL For those who have walked through the fires of hell and rather than fall to its flames, have emerged... SHERRILYN KENYON I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that... QUENTIN CRISP Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should eve... KAY HAGAN I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it. BEN ELTON After the World Cup I am going to stop (coaching). I think I have done the best I could. It is unfor... KALUSHA BWALYA I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life. EVA GABOR I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act. BILLY CRUDUP I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anyt... MICHAEL CONNELLY Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambi... MARIE CURIE I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear val... ANGELA DUCKWORTH I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL Don't sit up nights thinking about making me president for that will never come and I have no ambiti... WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing tha... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it i... CARL GUSTAV JUNG I think that, when you have what they're trying to create, they should work with you instead of agai... JEANIE BOHL The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability WILLIAM FEATHER Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w... KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE We should have never gotten down that far in the first place. That just gave us more intensity to co... BRIAN PARKER In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to... PANAYIOTIS ZAVOS I have no ambition to play the part of a mother, and why should I interfere with her illusions? I fi... OSCAR WILDE The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at... LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER I think it's long overdue, and I believed that Doris Miller should have been honored a long time... BILL FLORES Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the ... R. I. REES For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood... LOU REED I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of acti... MARK TOBEY I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should! CARLA HALL I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, becau... LEMONY SNICKET O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN We think those infringements should be stopped, and wish that the lawsuit against Lifestyle could ha... WANG DAWEI Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco... AKIROQ BROST Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Many believed this day would never come and many would say it should have happened a long time ago b... BERTIE AHERN Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything t... BILL BRUFORD Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I never dream to become someone important for myself. The truth is that I- I really don't have a per... NURUDEEN USHAWU The problem with a lot of Indian boys and girls is that they do not approach their partner, they are... APURVA GAGLANI The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le... GARY F EVANS... Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea... JODI PICOULT I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX They have to come over the political hurdle first before they can talk about anything else, FRANK GONG She knows that she should come back when she feels up to it. I don't have any idea when that will be... LORNE MICHAELS I don't ever want it to be misconstrued that this was done to be the first. I didn't even know until... WARDE MANUEL You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE. LORRIN L. LEE I have had this ambition for quite a long time but just did not know how to do it. ALAN WALLACE It is right that the interests of donor-conceived children should be first and foremost, and that do... CAROLINE FLINT That probably overstates the impact, just think of the army of people pouring into that region, and ... DANA JOHNSON For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It see... DANIEL WOODRELL Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Death is a long process," Archer says. "Your body is just the first part of you that croaks." Meanin... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wo... JULIUS CAESAR
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