Able Quotes

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and it doesn't matter how hard I try.

I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to listen to themselves above all others.

The beauty for Trump is that [Paul] Ryan et. al have worked on all this legislation and he is going to be able to hit the ground running.

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.

I wanted it to be a wonderful combination of being able to dance a little bit, not being especially good, but also playing a character who says the line, "I love to dance".

I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.

I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.

It's pointless to go against digital because sooner or later you won't be able to do anything else.

My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

I like working in all different mediums so I'm truly lucky to be able to flip back and forth.

We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

I've always lived by the ocean and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.

God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.

There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .

I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He'll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me.

I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.

And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives?

It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do directing. [...] If I were able to, I'd like to get into that.

I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.

We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!

If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!

In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!

What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]

You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.

If I'm going to do something a little bit more adult, I'll do it if it's going to be on at a different time slot or if it's going to be something that kids won't be able to get their hands on

A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

My mentoring program is pretty specific, it's about self-empowerment, about being able to find solutions through teamwork. That's one of my first goals.

My eyes change colors, which is why you guys have never been able to figure it out.

After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

The best part about DJing a fashion show after-party or event is being able to correlate the emotions of the collection with music, just as you would for a show.

You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic.

I have been very lucky. I have always been able to eat and drink and dance in my life so I am not afraid of anything. And if suddenly I should have nothing I would still be grateful.

I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.

Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

1. Don't be boring. 2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation with a stranger. 3. When in doubt, do what you can never do again.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.