Ambitious Student Mugs

"Let's face it Simkins, the only way you'll ever get to medical school is by donating your body to science."

"Where would you see yourself in five years' time?"

"When I grow up, I want to become president and eventually the subject of a groundbreaking, critically-acclaimed Broadway musical."

"I have a recurring nightmare that I've taken a test, and the professor won't give me an 'A'."

What else is there to wish for?

'I can't believe I didn't get that promotion. So many people have passed me by I feel like a road sign on the highway to success.'

"Today we are going to find out if you can that leap."

Caged Businessman

"One day, I'll be the first woman!"

"He wants to be a plastic surgeon when he grows up."

"You know, there's a corporate elevator."

"I really love school. There's only one problem. I think not having a college degree is holding me back."

'My ultimate goal is to do product promo in a popular Super Bowl T.V ad.'

"Listen here pup, it's time you realized it's a "dog eat dog" world."

'When I grow up I want to join the SWAT team!'

Learn to play the violin in one weekend - 'This isn't working! It's Saturday evening already and I've only got as far as holding it properly...'

"Hey, there's Sara, padding her college-entrance résumé!"

'I was speeding right along toward my goal of moving up from middle management, when a cost-cutting measure overtook me!'

"Where am I going to college? I thought this was college."

"Do I need to know this stuff to get into medical school?"

"Trying to get new business is killing me..."

Do you mind if my mother joins our little business dinner ? You know what it's like, I don't want people from the office to think I'm sleeping my way to the top.

One day, he hoped to hit the big time.

"I know by outward standard I'm successful, but a voice inside my head keeps saying, 'Where's your private plane?"

"Have a career, and then if you want to try acting, you'll have my blessing."

"Why be a princess...when I can be a queen?"

"It's lonely at the top...But it beats being depressed at the bottom."

"Sorry, but if we hire someone like you, you'll quit in six months and start a rival company!"

Parental Role Model

'But Marvin, you can't be a college graduate for a living!'

"You can achieve anything if you put you mind to it."

"The extent of your extracurricular activities in high school, may very well be participation in regular program of oral hygiene using an effective decay preventaative tooth paste, but that won't get you into a good university."

"If you work hard enough, and find the right reality show, you can grow up to be anything you want."

'Do I have to spell it out for you?'

"It's beginning to appear as if I'll never have greatness thrust upon me."