Home / Quotes / Quote by Margaret Cho

Quote by Margaret Cho

“I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.”

Quote by Margaret Cho

Author

Margaret Cho is an American comedian, singer, writer, and television producer. Known for her unique sense of humor and insightful commentary on social issues, she was born on December 5, 1968. Cho, of Korean-American descent, often addresses topics such as race, gender, and sexual orientation in her work. more

You May Also Like

“Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.”

Heart May Tears Ambition Errors

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.”

Mind Firsts Reason Ambition Towers Blindness Caps Falcon

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.”

World Self Pleasure Brain Teach Practice Destiny Ambition Humble Denial Dreamer Sublime Self-denial

Author:Walter Scott

“The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.”

Doe Whole Sun Creation Ambition Shining Disappointed

Book:The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies

Source: The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies

“How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.”

Heart Ambition Devil

Book:Letters from under a bridge: And poems

Source: Letters from under a bridge: And poems

“Ambition and suspicion always go together.”

Together Ambition Suspicion

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.”

Ambition Summit

Author:Pierre Corneille

“For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.”

Strong Ambition Medicine Bitter Desert Physicians Spears Perdition

Book:The Leysin Version of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan

Source: The Leysin Version of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan

“Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.”

Ability Ambition Weakness Capacity Weak Unhappy

Book:A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston

Source: A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston

“In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.”

Men May Success Ambition Highest Aim Alternatives Enterprise Empires Downfall Private Enterprise

Book:The History of Tacitus

Source: The History of Tacitus