Able Quotes

Angel is right,"said Dr. G-H quickly. "This is my clumsy way of demonstrating." "Demonstrating what?" I was barely able to keep a snarl out of my voice. "How to get yourself beat up in one easy step?

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it.

As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

Some photographers shoot hundreds of pictures in a row and you need to be able to move from pose to pose very quickly while trying to make it look effortless.

I'm always constantly battling with dry patches. I think I need a Plan B. Thankfully, I've always been able to pull something out of the bag in the heat of the moment.

The great thing, as a screenwriter, is that you are always proud of what ends up on the screen, you are able to create something in isolation and you have a lot of freedom.

I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while.

I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant

I've learned a lot at home and been able to take what I've learned at home to the court.

My biggest fear had always been getting hurt, and not being able to leave the game as a player on my own terms.

I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.

It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others.

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

It's really exhilarating and exciting to be able to meet your fan base and see them in person, and see the lengths that they're willing to go to.

I don't really believe in plans. They only change. My goal is simply to be able to make music and live life in this crazy, falling-apart world.

You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.

Producers and studios want to make movies that are more appealing internationally and I think that you have to use your different cultures as an advantage to be able to make those movies.

The military said we'll be able to confirm Saddam is dead with DNA testing. Apparently we have a sample of his DNA. So Monica Lewinsky is working for the CIA?

Ratings for the XFL are so low that pretty soon they'll be able to address the viewers by name.

President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day.

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.

I will never be able to move on as much as people would like me to.

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

If you have even a smidgen of doubt that you'll be able to stay away from racking up additional debt, don't do it.

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]