Able Quotes - Page 104

Failure: the renewable resource.

The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist.

I would say probably not being able to do what I want to do and not being completely fulfilled and happy. I don't know how that would manifest itself in a mirror. It's just that feeling of not being satisfied with my life would be the worst thing that could ever happen to me.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all.

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

I learned, one, you shouldn't ever quit. And I learned, two, you'll never be able to explain it to anybody

You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view...Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it.

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.

If you have $300,000 to shoot a cigarette on a table, it's an enormous amount of money. Maybe that's why my movies are the way they are. But it's the only way I can make a living.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposed real world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality.