Able Quotations | Page 6

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.

I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.

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.

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me

I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

If NASCAR racing gets any more exciting, I may not be able to stand it.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

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

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.

I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

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

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

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

The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around.

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

I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a distributor to come into Canada with it, because I think it is a wild and crazy romp that really tells things like it is.

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.

I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book

My favorite thing about doing photo shoots is just being able to have fun, meeting new people, getting dressed up, and I just love doing it. So, I have a lot of fun.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.

Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.

I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.

It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.