Able Quotes - Page 96

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.

Honour always wins, it is inevitable.

It's better to be happy and comfortable than well dressed.

I was on the central table and we were a very intimate group.

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.