Able Quotes - Page 74

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.

I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.

I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.

We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain a liveable environment, but we tend to take nature's services for granted because we don't pay money for most of them.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.

There are lots and lots of challenges that I wished - at the time - that I had done.There are lots of occasions where there were exciting things to be done but for some reason or another it was physically impossible for us to do them. I still wouldn't mind if I was able to go down into this most impressive valley in the Antarctic, but of course those things are beyond me now.

I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable.

There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

If it weren't for God's grace, you and I wouldn't be able to live for even one more minute.

It's always better to leave the party early.

Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: "The King is dead" and "Jesus wept."

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.