#ambition

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#dream #engine

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.' ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#ambition #face #i #i see #mirror

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#blair #cannot #him #his #lose

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#delusion #folly #illusion #preserve #pursuit

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#begets #dependence #designs #fit #germ

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#california #common #exist #found #grew

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#ambitious #australia #delusion #delusional #desire

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. ↗

— John Ruskin

#others #restlessness #slaves #some #their

Housewife: a position requiring great ambition to fill. Must have the determination to scrub mold, the good taste to distribute a checking account, and the good will to repeat this at a maid service or department store after her husband starts coming home drunk. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #marriage #wife #funny

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#ambition #character #earlier #had #her