Able Quotes

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

"Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly"... "And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place."

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself. -Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)

I can say with confidence that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force.

My thing is I'd love to be friends with Thom Yorke but if he wasn't a nice guy it would ruin everything for me, I probably wouldn't be able to listen to his music.

I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.

The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.

It certainly would be possible for America to redefine its role in the world, especially if, in the short run, America is able to cope effectively with the ongoing dilemma in the Middle East.

In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them they are wrong. If I say I'm doing it, I'm doing it. No matter how hard it is.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

I go out and put in a load during the offseason so I know what I'm going to be able to do, as long as I stay healthy, when it comes time for the season.

People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

With a clear mind that is reinforcing positivity back into myself and my craft, I am able to focus my energy on the task at hand and enjoy my experiences and day.

I'm able to fight for myself, I'm able to speak up and feel like I have a voice, and I can be my own advocate and my own warrior.

Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.

It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling.

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world.

I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective... I wanna learn and I wanna listen.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.

The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.

I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.

Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.

This is such a pivotal moment in my life! I'm transitioning as a woman, and I'm finally able to express myself as I am.

It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see it's me but since I'm on a bike, they think, "No, it's not her." And by the time they realize it's me, I'm already gone.

You never really own something until you're able to give it away.

When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! That’s what it’s all about.

It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV.

It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

I think it's awesome to be able to make people laugh.

You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not have the greatest range. But if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate.

I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.

On film, it's really nice to see that transformation from the beginning, reading the script, to know where he starts and where he ends, and be able to plan for that.

Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak.

Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.