Able Quotes

I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.

The reason I'm an actor is because I'll never be able to be perfect.

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.

So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.

Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able to find.

I love to be able to support other women comics.

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

Only two things I know about Albuquerque - Bugs Bunny should've taken a left turn there. And give me a hundred tries, I'll never be able spell it.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

The number one quality is charisma. You have to be able to connect with the audience. That is that magic "it" factor that designates a star from someone who is just never going to be a star.

I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

When he's on fire, he is impossible to stop. He dribbles like a winger, but is still able to score 20 goals a year in the Premiership. (on Thierry Henry)

"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".

You'll be surprised what someone is able to handle given no other choice.

What if I couldn't read? I wouldn't be able to text my friends movie times or even order cheese biscuits from Red Lobster!

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.

Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head - that is the ultimate source of frustration.

Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go back in time, to the point when the kata were created, and study them.

I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

We've created the almost godly power of being able to alter the climate, to change the face of the earth, now we need to develop the consciousness of gods, and wield that power wisely

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.