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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1842 - 1914

Topics

Ambition Friends Desire Living Dead

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

Robert Kazinsky

Men Fun Child Think Grow Kid

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

Good Men You Depend Serve May

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

Love World Universe Over Different

They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.

Die Trying You Website Three Ring

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.

Dangerous Done Say Jumping Thailand

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

Failure Friends Dream Realize Real

I have a rule that I don't review shows from photographs or from video. I certainly might go back and look at photographs and look at video to remind myself of something or for personal information. But I never review from that.

Myself Information Look Back Go

The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.

Congress Saw Treasury Major Vividly

Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.

Daughter Myself Think Famous Used

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

Happiness God Happy People Believe

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

Time World Long House Long Time Own

A 3D printer needs three elements: a bit of information, some raw material, some energy, and it can produce any object that was not there before.

Riccardo Sabatini

Energy Information Three Elements

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