Quotes of: Personal-ambitions Keyword

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

James Dobson

There's a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. 'Hit Me' doesn't sell this fantasy.

Steven Shainberg

Thomas Leroy: The only person standing in your way is you.

Black Swan

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Willard Libby

Fear only one person that is God, listen to only one voice that is your conscience”.

Amit Abraham

For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.

Aimee Bender

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Alain de Botton

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Alan Ball

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce

The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.

Anne Beatts

My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

Annette Bening

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

Annie Baker

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Alain de Botton

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Aleister Crowley

When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

Adam DeVine

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

Ani DiFranco

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

Anita Diament

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

Adrian Edmondson

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

Abel Ferrara