Quotes · Skopia

12 quotes

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Topic·Ambition✕clear

Play · Comedy (play)

I've always wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific.

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe · 1985

★ 5.2

Letters · Biography

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

James Boswell, Letters of Samuel Johnson · 1771

★ 3.8

Play · History (play)

Virtue is choked with foul ambition.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 2 · 1594

★ 3.6

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

I like when a woman has ambition. It's like seeing a dog wearing clothes.

30 Rock · 2007

★ 2.9

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I'm in the empire business.

Breaking Bad · 2012

★ 2.9

I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry And I am not throwing away my shot.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Hamilton · 2015

★ 2.9

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But, when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 2.2

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

I was really going to be something by the age of 23.

Reality Bites · 1994

★ 2.2

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

Okay, here's the story. I come from the gutter. I know that. I got no education, but that's okay. I know the street, and I'm making all the right connections. With the right woman, there's no stopping me. I could go right to the top.

Scarface · 1983

★ 2.1

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

Smoking marijuana, eating Cheetos, and masturbating do not constitute "plans" in my book.

Breaking Bad · 2009

★ 2.1

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

1797

★ 2.0

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

1893

★ 1.9