Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

Alan Watts

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Alan Rickman

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

Dave Chappelle

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Carl Sagan

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Bryan Singer

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Carl Icahn

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.

Bobby Cannavale

I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.

Beyonce Knowles

I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse. So for me, it's a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Edward James Olmos

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub

David Tudor

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

David Duchovny

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Ben Stiller

Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.

Barney Frank

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

Diablo Cody

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

Diablo Cody

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

Denis Waitley

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

Bill Nighy

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Cass McCombs

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

Alan Kay

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

Charlie Haas

You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

Bernard of Clairvaux

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Bobby Flay

In those days, the main requirement to be on the Food Network was being able to get there by subway.

Arthur C. Clarke

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Bar Refaeli

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

Don Bluth

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

Brian De Palma

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

Bram Stoker

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

Bob Edwards

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.

Brenda Lee

I didnt really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

Blaise Pascal

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.