Able Quotes - Page 121

Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry.

I feel very comfortable going at full speed.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

I am alive. I am so alive. It's unbelievable how alive I am.

We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

You cannot call yourself patient until you are willing and able to bear things that you have no wish to bear.

For me, I'm able to use my gift to glorify God. That's what it's about for me.

Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.

I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of it between the infrared and the ultraviolet - the narrow narrow corridor of light that we are able to perceive.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

Eugenie, my sweet, your outraged protests are adorable, but they only continue to slow us down. If you want me to help you, then let me. If you don't, then take me to one of those places where human women wear revealing clothing and quickly lose their virtue through alcohol.

If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.

To be humble is to be teachable.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.