Tom Petty Quotes

He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.

Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.

Power is more satisfying to some than wealth.... Power is, indeed, a heady thing—whether it be a King, a President, a Legislature, a Court, or an Administration agency that is concerned.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

I like power and I like to use it.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without it.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.