Able Quotes · Page 99

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

— Bobby Farrelly

I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time.

— Carmelo Anthony

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

— Duncan Sheik

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her.

— Jane Monheit

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

— Seth Lloyd

God is able to do anything. All things are possible with Him, but we must not quit praying.

— Joyce Meyer

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

— Shawn Ashmore

When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.

— Martin Buber

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

— Sun Tzu

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

— Christian Lacroix

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.

— Matthew Hale

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.

— Nafisa Joseph

I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.

— Ellen Wong

I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond.

— Nelson Mandela

People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

— Donald Wuerl

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

— Jack Layton

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio…

— Ice T

The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to…

— Dolly Parton

As a philanthropist, I give away a lot of money every year. Yet I thought there was a higher leverage to come…

— Jeffrey Skoll

I was a youngster looking up to dudes like Vicky McClure, Joe Dempsie and Michael Socha - in fact, he was a…

— Jack O'Connell

I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy,…

— Tiger Woods

When A R Rahman won the Oscars, I had a dream of being able to congratulate him in person. This dream is…

— Mohammed Rafi

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If…

— James Surowiecki

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the…

— Vikas Swarup

I had known David Ham and Marco Santiago from having met and worked with them on The Cross and the Switchblade which…

— Patricia Mauceri

I'm a product of state schools. I had a working-class family. We had no books. I was the first to go to…

— T.C. Boyle

At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like…

— Veronica Roth

I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of…

— Dean Spade

Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe,…

— Archibald MacLeish

“We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness…

— Anonymous

However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can…

— Antony Flew

We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.

— Salley Vickers

In order to perform the supernatural, you must first be able to accomplish the supernormal.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

— Diablo Cody

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

— Oscar Wilde

You will not be able to enjoy a good night's sleep unless you've worked hard during the day

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

I love being able to help and encourage my friends and I try to inspire them as they do me.

— Teresa Palmer

I started off as a 'Star Trek' fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.

— Manny Coto

If it weren't for God's grace, you and I wouldn't be able to live for even one more minute.

— Billy Graham