Able Quotes - Page 14

We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken.

If the disciples needed to be so endued and to preach the gospel with the Holy Spirit and with the manifestation of the Almighty, are we better than them able to carry on God's work without the empowerment they had?

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

After each game, I want to be able to say: I gave it all I could, I gave it my best.

There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.

You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

When someone special walks into your life and is able to change things for the better, don't let them walk away.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

I'd have to say that "Mr. Crowley" in my most memorable solo... I had spent hours trying to figure out a solo for the song ... Ozzy came in and said "it's crap - everything you're playing is crap" .. he told me to get in there and just play how I felt. He made me really nervous, so I just played anything. When I came back to listen to it, he said it was great.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.