Able Quotes

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people.

I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.