Able Quotes - Page 26

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will not be remembered, and if not remembered the stories will not be reprinted (because no one can find them).

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

Even logical positivists are capable of love.

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them.

Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe.

I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.

True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.