Able Quotes - Page 144

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now the other.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

Whoever is not able to sacrifice, has no talent for love.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, “You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?

Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.

Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music.

All women bring something different to the table and we have to appreciate them all.

I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family.

I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?