Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

Rick McCallum

You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer.

Richard Matheson

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

Renee Fleming

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.

Thomas S. Monson

You will never be able to measure your influence for good.

Ricardo Lagos

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

Riccardo Muti

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

Sri Chinmoy

When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely.

Steve Nash

I know what I can do and what I'm able to accomplish.

Thomas Harris

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

Tim Cook

If I know what your messages are, if I can read those, I'll probably be able to conclude where you're going, who you're with, the location the message was sent.

Robert Bolt

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

Sarah Dessen

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.

Robert Smith Surtees

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Robert Sheckley

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

Robert Preston

I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.

Robert Plant

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

Rosemary Clooney

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

Samuel Johnson

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

Sam Waterston

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

Samantha Bond

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

Robyn

It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.

Tom Ford

You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.

Tom Baker

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Todd Gitlin

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

Stephen Dorff

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

Susanna Kaysen

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.

Suzanne Collins

But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.

Suzanne Collins

You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

Steve Martin

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

Stephan Pastis

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

Ruben Studdard

I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.