Able Quotes

• So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

  

  Ruggiero Ricci
  • Difficult
  • Rhythm
  • Conductor

• If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Heaven
  • Able
  • Hell

• If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Sun
  • Able
  • Captains Of Industry

• For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Average
  • Dentist
  • Accountants

• It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

  

  Sherrod Brown
  • Poverty
  • Hard
  • Lifts

• That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Free
  • Desire

• Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

  

  Cole Hamels
  • Help
  • Lead
  • Brett

• Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.

  

  Tony Hillerman
  • Feels
  • Boat
  • Prison

• There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gay
  • Needs
  • Rapper

• I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles.

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Actor
  • Creative
  • Marry

• All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Passion

• A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge

  

  George Gilder
  • Failing
  • Experiments
  • Fundamentals

• While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. This figure takes into account the destruction or dismantling of every major factory associated with prohibited weapons manufacture, all significant items of production equipment, and the majority of the weapons and agent produced by Iraq.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • Destruction
  • Significant
  • Accounts

• I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.

  

  William Gibson
  • Imagine
  • Firsts
  • Blades

• I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Athlete
  • Realizing
  • Keep Going

• 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.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder
  • Persons

• It has to be convenient. You have to be able to bank with me anytime.

  

  Ana Patricia Botin
  • Able
  • Bank
  • Convenient

• If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Book
  • Problem
  • Regret

• I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.

  

  Terrence Mitchell Riley
  • Long
  • Play
  • Tired

• Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Imagine
  • Television
  • Answers

• Well that would be nice but I am not complaining about things being hectic, it is great what I have been able to do, it's just that things get a bit much sometimes.

  

  Alex Parks
  • Nice
  • Sometimes
  • Complaining

• It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Together
  • Joy
  • Goal

• “You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.”

  

  Katherine Ellison
  • Good
  • Able
  • Slow Down

• Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

  

  Ricardo Lagos
  • Poverty
  • Crosses
  • Frontiers

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