Aspiring For Greatness Quotes & Sayings

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep. — Tina Brown

I asked for a sign that what I had done was necessary. Just one small sign. Nothing big. One small but incontestable sign. I opened my eyes. There was no sign. It doesn't work that way and never did. — Dean Koontz

he asks me, as if Ruth's become invisible. That's fucked up but that's what happens to women. We grow up into ghosts. No one wants to screw Ruth anymore so she's invisible. — Samantha Hunt

Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me. — Lorraine Hansberry

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing. — Mark McKinnon

What frightens me most is the danger that, amid all the constant trivial preoccupations of private life, ambition may lose both its force and its greatness, that human passions may grow gentler and at the same time baser, with the result that the progress of the body social may become daily quieter and less aspiring. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing. — James Broughton

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. — William Jones

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket. — Bill Moyers