Able Quotes - Page 143

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.

It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

I actually love fish and vegetables. I was raised on vegetables! Anything green - spinach, broccoli, brussels sprouts - I crave.

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

You don't need other people to affirm that you're a valuable person.

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

I had decided that I wanted a dog from an animal shelter. Normally, presidents have purebred dogs, but my is a Labrador-griffon mix. Absolutely adorable.

Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.

Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."

R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.