ambition

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.

A dreamless sleep and a life without ambition are synonymous with death.

A day in a man__ life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.

Surely there must be in a world of manifold beautiful things something among them for me. And always, while I am still young, there is that dim light, the Future. But it is indeed a dim, dim light, and ofttimes there's a treachery in it.

My only career goal is to be an halloween icon.

I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, __h me! I wish I were a widow!_ Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her diamonds in her dressing-case and her carriage in her stable, and without a feather__ weight of encumbrance, she offered a finished example of satisfied ambition.

Ambition is the capacity for unhappiness.

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

There is no friendship between kings.

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.

My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation.

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

At the end, we will arrive where we started.