Able Quotes
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When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
Casey Affleck
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The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.
Terence McKenna
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With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
William Christopher Handy
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.
William Banting
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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
Plato
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There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.
Ratan Tata
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I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.
Merry Clayton
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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
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You need to be able to SHARE IDEAS, INSPIRE and MOTIVATE
Vivek Wadhwa
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I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun.
Nicholas Stoller
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I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
Ethan Embry
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Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
Catharine MacKinnon
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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
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When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.
Kay Arthur
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I was able to make the jump to theaters without having a TV show. My passion for getting a TV show just plummeted. It was like I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve.
Jim Gaffigan
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I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
Patrick Henry
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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
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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
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Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
Helen Keller
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We have a lot of spirited discussions. We need to be able to have these discussions, and after that we need to get along.
Tom Atkins
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You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.
Barack Obama
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religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.
William P. Young