Able Quotes

I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.

Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else.

I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.

Having a persistent nature is part of being human. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of knowing another person, or loving them, or being their friend or enemy or rival.

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.

I grew up being educated by Sesame Street and gained a sense of humor from The Muppet Show. I'd give my right foot to be able to do a scene or two with the Muppets.

When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.

I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.

I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.

In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.

My ultimate goal and our ultimate goal is to be individuals, to sustain what we been able to sustain.

Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.

You can't talk about attacking or assassinating the President of the United States and you shouldn't be able to.

Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn’t been able to give...at last he realized that what she had needed from him was need itself. That he should need her as she needed him.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going form job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun.

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.

Only a human being would be able to assess whether candidates are capable, personality-wise, of sharing and disseminating that institutional knowledge to help other newer and younger workers.

It's never fun to do it by yourself. It's good to have other people that are on the same path as you. It's nice to have that in common and be able to converse with them. It's cool to share that.

All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.

The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.

In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.

Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.

The fact that so many people whose livelihood depends on being able to play, it's just crazy.

I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do.

Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?

. . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

It's always been a dream to have my own sunglass line and I'm so excited to be able to finally offer it to my fans!

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

Showtunes might be able to come back into pop music, which is something we haven't seen since the 50s and 60s. Everything is related to everything else because we're in such a niche industry.

I enjoy feeling physically strong, so maybe I'd like to be able to lift a building and launch it at someone.

I strongly believe that people may not want, or may not be able, to start again from scratch, so giving old furniture a new lease of life is at the heart of my philosophy.