Able Quotes

I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.

I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.

The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

I think at the age I'm at, it's really hard for a film career, and I'm at a point in my life where I thought it would be a good idea to be a part of a good show and to be able to finish school.

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'd rather be able to know that I've made a choice that's right for me, than saying yes because I don't want my agents to be upset with me.

Human beings make mistakes, so we all make mistakes and wrong decisions. Being able to make a decision and act upon it is not gender specific.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

From what might appear to you to be small choices, the Lord will lead you to the happiness you want. Through your choices He will be able to bless countless others.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.

People will be able to judge for themselves.

I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.

What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college.