Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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!

Don Bluth

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

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.

Jason Behr

I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant

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.

Elijah Wood

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

Edward Snowden

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I don't seem able to do my best unless I'm behind or in trouble.

Brenda Lee

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

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.

Carl Jung

One must be able to let things happen.

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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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

Bjarne Stroustrup

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

Bill Gates

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Bill Gates

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

Elizabeth I

I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

Elia Kazan

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

Edward Whitacre, Jr.

I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.

Blaise Pascal

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

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.