“Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.” MenVoiceWhiteNumbersNovelModernCryAmbitionStandardsExtraordinaryWildernessAustralianPropheticDo It YourselfSmall NumbersModern Novel Author:David Pryce-Jones
“I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.” PlayKidsGuyWhiteRocksFrontsQuietBandEgoAmbitionGuitarSuitsRock N Roll Author:George Harrison
“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.” ShowsFoundHouseStarsWhiteRoomsCasesPlayerInfluenceSeriousDrugAmbitionBaseballHotelWhite HouseSpellsPublishersChasingMovie StarTrashSkirtsBaseball PlayerCongressmanTalk ShowsHotel RoomsSufferersRecreational Drugs Author:Calvin Trillin
“At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.” WritingBookAgeLastsFatherWhiteHalfOur LivesProduceSonAmbitionWorthyTitlesQueensSatBrownEtcComparisonTomsDesksVictoriaBookshelves Author:Rheta Childe Dorr
“I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.” WritingCharacterBlackSpaceWhiteDecisionAmbitionDrivenLustFlawedBlack Or White Author:Kevin James
“There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that difference is enough to warrant the idea that they shouldn't be together. We are so much more alike in nature than we are different, and my ambition with the roles I choose to do is to break down that prejudice, by showing how much I - as a man - am just a man.” MenStillsIdeasDifferentEnoughTogetherBlackDifferencesWhiteRolesBreakAmbitionPrejudiceFundamentalsBreaking DownMisunderstandingObservingMy AmbitionWarrants Author:David Oyelowo
“Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.” KnowsLoveHappensTogetherBlackWhiteOne ThingMankindAmbitionChineseMy AmbitionReggaeBlack WhiteReggae MusicRastaJamaican Music Author:Bob Marley
“The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.” MenWorldFeelsBelieveIdeasWarCountryWholeI BelieveHeavenWhiteOughtCitizensAmbitionGood ThingsCurrentsWhole WorldOur CountryPatriotWhalesGreat AmericanParcelAmerican WriterMelville Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.” WorldShowsTogetherGrowsWhitePoorRoomsGoneForeverSeaStupidNew YorkHairBabyFoolAmbitionDancingHip HopClubsEndlessVanityHipsBeachDawnFollyHolidayHopsMaryHugMidnightLiving RoomMy BabyChucklesChilly Author:Pete Hamill
“The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.” MatterRunningWhiteWindAmbitionSpotsQueensWhat Matters Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.” PeopleDreamAmericaCoursesHouseWhiteFashionAmbitionGreenForeignersDetachedUnluckyDepravedPrecedenceShutters Author:Margaret Mead
“So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.” PeopleHeartEndsEnoughMomentsLastsJesusLeftForceChristWhiteKnowingPiecesAlivePlansDoorsShareTalentChangedColdMy HeartAmbitionSummerJesus ChristHorseLifetimeBlowGrantsGet BackWorth ItHere And ThereMy AmbitionChanged My LifeLast DayStaying AliveLeft OutPoignantWhite HorsePretty Lady Author:George Jung