My only ambition is to grow as a musician.

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

For centuries our wealth has come from our ambition, entrepreneurial skills and global reach.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over.

I would like to win the Ballon d'Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition.

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

I've always had the ambition to win a lot of trophies.

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.

I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.

My ambition is only to develop Andhra Pradesh.

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

It's still my ambition to be at the top level and be playing for England - especially, like, a competition like the World Cup.

My ambition is to stop showing off. I'd love to be a tweedy academic. I'd be happy living in a croft. I like making jam. So why am I a semi-public figure?

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.