Able Quotes

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

Why aren't you signed up for the 401K? I'd never be able to run that far.

I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

Facebook is one way to be able to communicate in a quick way. I never hired a firm to send out pictures and such so I am lame that way. All I can say is how grateful I am for the fans I have.

In terms of covers, it's always nice to do ones that aren't actually getting played by the original artist anymore. I just love the song; I love that band, and it's nice to be able to play it.

I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

When I was fifteen or eighteen, I never even imagined I would be in a band, let alone being able to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help.

I'm really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do, besides high heels and magic powers.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.

I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.

I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances.

Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.

If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason.

Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time?

I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.

With each movie I get better and I'm able to tell incredible stories that move people into motion.

I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

If you were a fish, and you were to touch a doorknob, you would be able to feel the presence of every person who had touched that doorknob during the course of a day.

If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.

I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.

Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.

If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.

Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.

You should never want to be a one position player. If you're a real basketball player, you should be able to play any position. That's the difference between really good players and average players.

I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport.

Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, we see that a lot.

If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

Oh contraire, mon frère. I’m able to annoy all adults in ten syllables or less. Sometimes, I don’t even have to speak at all. I just walk into the room and it rankles them.

Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant... boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."

One should be able to teach adequately and feel good about it.