Able Quotes

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.

The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.