Able Quotes

• I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Work
  • Exercise
  • Discipline

• I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Feels
  • Lucky
  • Shortcomings

• I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Trying
  • Free
  • Expression

• Donald Trump's promised the moon. Now he has power. He's going to fail to deliver. He's not going to be able to bring a bunch of coal jobs back and a bunch of factory jobs back in this global economy. Period. Because you can't. It's not going to happen.

  

  Van Jones
  • Power
  • Period
  • Trump

• As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Long
  • Voice
  • Should

• There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

  

  Andrei Codrescu
  • Up
  • Night
  • Air

• I am more into the old school guy than I am with the new school guys. I came in young and I had to pay my dues to be considered a vet. To be able to play for over 10 years at wide receiver, that's why I like looking at the older guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Teddy Ginn Jr., Brian Hartline. That's what I'm about.

  

  Randy Moss
  • School
  • Guy
  • Pay

• Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.

  

  Pir Vilayat Khan
  • Situation
  • Ugly
  • Grace

• If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Time
  • Small
  • Revelations

• The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

  

  Frederick W. Taylor
  • Science
  • Stupid
  • Occupation

• My biggest advice to people now is that when you go through something traumatic, you've got to go talk to somebody. You've got to be able to understand it, make peace with it inside yourself, and you've got to be able to let it go.

  

  Tracy Lawrence
  • People
  • Peace
  • Advice

• I'm just glad to see that Pete (Sampras) shut everyone up last year. That was satisfying. You can't bag on guys like Pete or Tiger (Woods) or Michael Jordan. They can play as long as they want, they can do whatever they want. Nobody should be able to tell them differently.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Up
  • Long
  • Guy

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

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Beautiful
  • Everything
  • Able

• Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Party
  • Politics
  • Confused

• It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Mystery
  • Birth
  • Witness

• I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Life
  • Music
  • Artist

• I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Happy
  • Single
  • Feels

• The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Needs

• Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

  

  Martin Delany
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Education

• Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Enemy
  • Silence
  • Taxes

• It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.

  

  Steve Israel
  • Age
  • Cutting
  • Retirement

• Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Soul
  • Giving
  • Silence

• You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it - to see the Queerness that moves in every bit

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • See
  • Queerness

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