Able Quotations | Page 10

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

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.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant... boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

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.

Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.

You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, 'Listen, we'll be on it.'

In the future we'll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don't like it, we'll just turn it off.

Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

I'm able to make decisions even in the face of adversity.

I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.

I'm lucky to have been able to represent different companies over my career.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.

I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.

I do like Peyton Manning. I mean, you can't lose with a guy like that - especially with the amount of touchdowns he's been able to produce.

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community...

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.

The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

I don't particularly like to go see 3D movies, but when I'm doing it I kind of do enjoy it. I enjoy seeing the image in 3D, there's a childhood fun about being able to see those dimensions.

You need to not be able to do anything else, to be in this business. If you have other options, in those unemployed moments, those other options will take precedent. From a directorial standpoint, I think it's really Freudian, the amount of trust I have in filmmakers because I have such a trusting relationship with my dad.

There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.

you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.

I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not me, I would not be able to advise you, and if I were unable to advise you, you'd do as you like, so you might as well do as you like and have done with it.

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.

I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.

You never really own something until you're able to give it away.

With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.

Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.

I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.