Able Quotes - Page 152

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

My wife [ Ryan Michelle Bathe] is the engine that makes our family drive. In the midst of everything she's able to juggle many more balls at one time and more often than not is able to tell me where I'm supposed to be. Sometimes I forget myself.

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Some people are able to not only entertain the public in any way that they can but also in some way to throw in some sort of inspirational message with the entertainment. I have always tried to do that with whatever I wrote. And I'm sure that a lot of other writers do, too.

Juice cleansing has been all the rage for some time. And I used the word 'rage' advisedly; one must push a violent flood of liquidised vegetables and fruit through one's system for at least three days in order to perform a 'cleanse.'

You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

Chopsticks box! I didn't know before and put them on the table and my Japan friends scolded me.

Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied century. Before, you could never have seen such intense change in a 50-year span.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

President Obama will not be able to contain himself, and he will go after Mr. Trump every single chance he gets once Obama is out of office.

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there.

To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

My power is immeasurable; My truth inexplicable, unfathomable.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.