It's a pretty impossible ambition but it seemed slightly more achievable after reading that book.
Vulgar: "Impossible ambition: the arrivistes, the nouveau riche, the immigrants, the upwardly mobile".
That is the impossible ambition of Shelley's poetry, which at moments he seems to make possible through the power of his language.
Recriminations among Republicans flew thick and fast, with moderates accusing House conservatives of trashing the party's reputation in pursuit of an impossible ambition to repeal or defund the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Truth is crucial, in different ways, to the imaginative and factual writer; but even more important is the impossible ambition to make writing, with its departures and transitions, synonymous with freedom.
She decided as a child she wanted to be an actress, but for a girl living in a provincial village, from a modest family with no connection to the world of theatre or cinema, it seemed an impossible ambition.
She told him that it was an impossible ambition, especially for a boy living on the prairies.
Tuition fees of up to £3,000 (about $5,500), she said, might have made her academic ambitions impossible.
Not that any one of those ambitions is impossible.
"As a young woman in UK society, it is impossible to nurture your ambitions if you are constantly told that you are not the same as your male equivalent," the letter adds.
