Able Quotes

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s.

We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."

When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays.

I always act better when I'm able to curse.

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.

The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.

Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

What I like to do is to try to win as many tournaments and as many majors as I can, and with him [Tiger Woods] in the field, it just gives it more credibility, whatever it is I am able to accomplish.

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with.

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

Even with a small video we will always be able to do a small movie with friends and to show it to someone. You won't get the Oscar for it. But, after all, why are you writing and why are you filming?

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.

On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

The most able seems clumsy.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

I think that's an important part about being in a band, to be able to stand for what you do throughout the whole thing.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.

On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window.