Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

Luke Kirby

But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.

Melanie Lynskey

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

Nicole Sullivan

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

Marya Mannes

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Mary J. Blige

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

Mark Twain

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Kevin Spacey

Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

Kathy Reichs

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

James Taylor

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

James Patterson

I feel like I'm going to HURL. Which, even if I wanted to do, I couldn't do, because I haven't eaten. I can't even drag myself out of my room. And while I'd be able to muster the strength to roundhouse Fang until he begged for MERCY, I'de be mush around an Eraser.

Emily Blunt

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

Ella Maillart

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

Hermann Hesse

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

Henri Matisse

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

Henri Nouwen

If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must be something to be able to do something.

Marie Dressler

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

Marie Osmond

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

Teresa Palmer

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

Henry Ford

Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right

Mahatma Gandhi

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

Louise Gluck

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

Louise Erdrich

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

James Lawrence

Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors.

Eric Davis

Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That's the best therapy.

Emma Stone

I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills.

Heidi Klum

As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things.

John Huston

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

Rafael Moneo

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

Scott Bakula

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

Sienna Miller

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.