Ambition Quote by Eleanor Catton

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave…

— Mark Millar

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty…

— Edward Gibbon

After I finished 'The Darkest Minds' series, I knew I wanted to take a risk and work on something completely different - lighter in…

— Alexandra Bracken

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

— Kim Basinger

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Judi Dench

I had no sense of having reached some goal because I was an etoile at the Paris Opera. My ambition, if you can call…

— Sylvie Guillem

I created a paradigm by which I could succeed, and up until recently it was the only way I could do it. I could…

— Billy Corgan

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

— Adrian Tomine

In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

— Rachel Field

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan