Able Quotes - Page 92

All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign!

I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

I need to be able to rock out.

Let the results be a by-product of you taking impeccable steps day-in and day-out.

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big bottle of champagne and I'll save it for that day, for the day when they'll be no more camera.

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.