. . . I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.
I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.
We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be able to communicate effectively with everyone else.
To be able to forget means sanity.
Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.
I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.
A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
I like meeting people and I like being able to help.
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.
Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
