Able Quotes

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

They are able because they think they are able.

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.

I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.