Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eoin Colfer

It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON-

Gary Pruitt

We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment,.

In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.

George Carlin

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it.

Ferdinand de Saussure

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

Feist

Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us?

Florence Welch

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

Flavor Flav

The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.

Flannery O'Connor

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

Helen Keller

Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.

Catharine MacKinnon

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

Ernest Bevin

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

Cassandra Clare

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Graham Phillips

Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.

Jessica Capshaw

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

Jean de la Bruyere

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

Bryan Cranston

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

I am no longer able to be anonymous.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

Molly Ivins

The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.

Keira Knightley

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

Katherine Webb

You have to be 100 percent comfortable with yourself and who you are. You'll have unflattering pictures posted on the Internet for all to see, so you have to be able to handle yourself and stay true to yourself.

Kate Burton

I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

Karen White

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

Ken Kesey

They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.

Katie Price

If there was somebody I wanted to meet, I'd like to be able to get their autograph.

Kim Harrison

Maybe I could be friends with a ghost. I wouldn’t be able to kill him.

Iris Murdoch

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

J. K. Rowling

If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.

Grace Napolitano

Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

Grace Paley

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.