Able Quotes

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.

I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I'm in.

I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

I don't have to take insulin because I have been able to make these changes and take this medication.

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing.

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.