Unable Quotes

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.