Able Quotes

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.

If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that.

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.

I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

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.

It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it.