Able Quotes

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.

Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.

It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.

I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.

I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables, for that matter.

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.