Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Mathieu Kassovitz

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

Italo Calvino

They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.

Isadora Duncan

For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have the satisfaction of getting my own way.

Harriet Tubman

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.

Georgette Mosbacher

What separates the winners from the losers is that winners are able to handle problems and crises that they never imagined would occur. You hit the floor, but what counts is how fast you can get up and regroup. Failure is simply part of the equation.

Don Bluth

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

Doutzen Kroes

I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.

Jim Davis

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

Paul Auster

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

Paul Auster

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Julia Sawalha

I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.

Leonardo da Vinci

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

Patrice Leconte

As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.

Parker Stevenson

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

Naomi Watts

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

Pierre Omidyar

You're able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish.

Nelson A. Miles

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

Rachel Joyce

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

Nhat Hanh

To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.

Noam Chomsky

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

Oprah Winfrey

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

Mark Twain

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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.

Noah Baumbach

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.