Able Quotes

What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

It's definitely an honour and a dream to be able to go out there and have all the people in the stands cheering for you it's a great feeling and I cant wait to get the Olympics started.

Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment.

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy...

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

You have to find things that are accessible and doable in your busy life and try to fit some time in your schedule to just have time to yourself and be able to recoup and refocus.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

The only people I have been able to use are those who fought

You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

I'm working 18 hour days and I'm feeling guilty not being able to be there when all those times I want to be mother.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us.

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.