Able Quotes

I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively.

It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.

Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.

Listen,' Clover said. 'Don't worry about not being able to come back, I've lived both places, and trust me, you won't be getting the short end of the stick if you end up in Foo. I mean, candy alone.

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.

Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

I remember having my tonsils out when I was fifteen and waking up crying historically but not being able to stop. That was quite strange.

Im an expert on surfing the channels, so Im always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

I don't have to be as big as Dre, Kanye or Pharrell. Nobody even has to know my face. As long as I'm getting placements and I'm making good music and able to support myself - I'm good.

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?

I definitely have been known to be grossly insensitive in many different ways, you can ask the wife. To speak without a filter sometimes and not being able to edit myself with much sensitivity.

The people who crucified Jesus were not able to see his godliness at all; they could only see the mischief in him.

Be loving towards yourself, then you will be able to love others too.

I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.

This (Coley's toxins) is really an effective treatment and it an OUTRAGEOUS crime of the century that we at MSK were able to cure cancer a 100 years ago that they can't cure today.

You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach.

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.

I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause.

You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.

I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.

Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.

As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did.

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.

When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

I want to be able to make a movie.

Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.

When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about being completely present all the time, right there in the moment.

In film and television you have to be able to see the whole picture in a different way than you do on the stage because you shoot out of order and you're working with technology.