Lofty Quotes

(On his role as a basketball player in `Semi-Pro`) I love the fact that this is historically accurate and funny all at the same time. You can parody the sport and you can parody the era, but at the same time you have a built-in arc for the audience as they watch this team try to attain the lofty goal of fourth place.

I believe in taking a positive attitude toward the world, toward people, toward my work. I think I`m here for a purpose. I think it`s very likely that we all are, but I`m only sure about myself. I try to tune myself in to whatever it is that I`m supposed to be, and I try to think of myself as a part of all of us - all mankind and all life. I find it`s not easy to keep these lofty thoughts in mind as the day goes by, but it certainly helps me a great deal to start out this way.

The issue here is indeed control. It is the appropriation of material that they don`t own for a purpose that is, however altruistic and lofty and wonderful, nevertheless a commercial enterprise.

I went to a place called the Berkley Film Institute for a summer program with a grade school friend of mine, and we just thought it was a joke. It was very impressionist, very Berkley. There were all these people who were there to communicate and change the world, to do all these lofty things -- and then they made these really shitty, stupid little movies. And we were kind of like, "I`m not here for this, I`m just here to pull cable." We were the youngest people there and we ended up being the grips and electrics on everybody else`s movies, and it was pretty good those six or seven weeks, we got to shoot Panaflex cameras and make a married print - it was in black and white and you made these little cheese-ball movies, but at least you were making "something." It was kind of like film school in that way, but those who can`t do, teach, and those who couldn`t teach, taught there. They tried, they just didn`t want to get dirty with it, they didn`t want to get in up to their necks. It was all very patrician."

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Eric is a very bright young man who is likely to succeed in life. He is intelligent enough to achieve lofty goals as long as he stays on task and remains motivated.

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

(The Pledge was) born out of my own love of the flag and for all the lofty Americanism it represented

Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular