"Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air."

Ability, Earth

38

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air."

Exlpore more Ability quotes

"I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer."

Teresa Wright, American Actress

Ability, Acting

"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."

Fred Frith, English Composer

Ability,

"The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully."

Pat Brown, American Entertainer

Ability,

"The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them."

John Ashcroft, American Public Servant

Ability, Children, Internet

"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

Iain Banks, Scottish Writer

Ability, Saying, Skill, Worth

"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Ability, Literature, Writers

"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him."

Trevor Rabin, South African Musician

Ability, Enemy, State

"Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture."

John Abbott, Canadian Statesman

Ability, Culture, Man, May

"English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it."

Leon Uris, American Writer

Ability, English, Example, Writing

"Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances."

Christopher Dodd, American Politician

Ability, Chance, Circumstances

Explore more quotes by Earl Wilson

"Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money."

Money

"A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie."

Man

"This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt."

Love

"One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills."

Blood

"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

Experience

"Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense."

Money

38

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Ability quotes

"I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer."

"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."

"The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully."

"The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them."

"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."

"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him."

"Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture."

"English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it."

"Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances."

Explore more quotes by Earl Wilson

"Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously."

"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

"Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money."

"A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie."

"This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt."

"One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills."

"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

"Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense."