Able Quotes - page 9

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft. (Leslie Nielsen)
Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways. View quote
Lawrence Wright
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. View quote
May Sarton
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. View quote
Wendell Willkie
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. View quote
Garry Shandling
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. View quote
Atom Egoyan
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. View quote
Atom Egoyan
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. View quote
Lynn Abbey
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. View quote
Karl Abraham
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. View quote
Samuel McChord Crothers
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack. (Flannery O’Connor)
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy. View quote
Al Yankovic
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life. View quote
Alex Campbell
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it. View quote
Allen Klein
I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like. View quote
Adrian Belew
It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers. View quote
Bill Budge
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. View quote
Birch Bayh
I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever. View quote
Brandi Chastain
And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months. View quote
Brandon Routh
In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want. View quote
Brit Hume
And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. (Christy Carlson Romano)
Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying. View quote
Compay Segundo
Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20. View quote
Curt Weldon
The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered. View quote
Don Bluth
You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way. View quote
Don Bluth