Able Quotes - Page 113

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.

You will never see what you are capable of, although you must seek to.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

...it's almost natural because when you're an artist you know what you want. And then if you're able to mentally turn that into being a CEO, now you know what the artist wants. That's kinda how I did it.

'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.