Able Quotes - Page 51

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

If you don’t stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.

At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.

A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

Stop eating 'dead' foods: junk, fried, and fast foods, as well as processed carbs. They’re loaded with sugar and other additives. The more live foods we eat (fruits and vegetables), the more alive we feel. The more dead foods we eat...well, you get the idea.

If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same amino-acid seeding that have evolved in other solar systems. The mission is the message--to escape and come home.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.