Able Quotes - Page 63

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

All of earth's creatures have, hidden within their beings, a wild uncontrollable urge to punt!

I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.