Able Quotes

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

This country won’t be able to function properly.

It’s something that I dreamed of since I was a kid – to be able to represent my country and play in the Ryder Cup is what dreams are made of.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

You know, it wasn’t even that I’m a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I’d be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

I actually went to study with the Ramapoughs in New York. I wanted to be able to see the mountains and the forest, be around the people.

The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.