“Suddenly, as though in a dream, this apparition, this double apparition, approached me. The two most beautiful people in the world were floating toward me, smiling. It was as if they were angelic visitors. I thought to myself, 'If there is anything I can do to keep them as beautiful as they are, I will do it.'” PeopleIfsWorldI CanTwoDreamBeautifulCan DoFloatingVisitorsAngelicBeautiful PeopleApparitions Author:Gilbert Seldes
“I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.” IfsWayWantYearsPersonsStillsI CanKidsJobsFallThreeCan DoFalling Down Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“God, thank you for waking me up this morning. I want to embrace every day, however limited my day may be, as a gift from God. I want to live this day to its fullest. I know there are things I can no longer do. I know I am facing daily limitations. But I want to focus on what I can do, not on what I cannot do. So help me God. I know this day will never be repeated. I know I cannot live it over again. Help me to live it to its fullest.” KnowsWantMayI CanHelpingCan DoMorningFocusEmbraceLimitationHelp MeThis DayWakingGift From GodGod Help MeWaking Me Up Author:Ed Dobson
“When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground.” I CanSongFallCan DoSky Author:Willie Nelson
“What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.” Has BeensI CanCan DoMorningMinesBonesDawnAwakenedI Can Do This Author:Diane Ackerman
“When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindI CanYoungActorsCan DoLaughable Author:Will Arnett
“People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.” PeopleWantKindI CanSeemsChoicesAsksCan DoCareersLuckyAsk MeCareers Choices Author:Emile Hirsch
“As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting, I like to ask a lot of questions and understand exactly why the director is doing what they're doing, so that I can provide him or her with the ingredients that they need to get the scene that they want. It's not to challenge them, in any way. It's just so that I can do my job best.” WayWantNeedsI CanImportantJobsActorsAsksCan DoChallengesActingSceneDirectorsIngredients Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.” ThinkingWantFeelsWellsKindArtI CanWholeRunningArtistCan DoBuiltArroganceSpectrumMinimalismI Can Do ItClassical Art Author:Sylvester Stallone
“I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that's about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can't remember them.” IfsKnowsWantI CanRememberEnergyCan DoFantasyWeaponsGunGardenMachinesGlassesBuyingRoofHelicoptersGrenadeMachine GunsSolar Energy Author:Debbie Harry
“I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you write a play and you act it out in 24 hours, literally. People pay and the money goes to charity. So I did one - I was horrible. I was bad. I was terrified. And I was like, "Oh, I gotta do this again." Because I know I can do it.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsI CanPlayTogetherActorsCan DoHoursPayCharityHorribleBunchTerrifiedBroadwayPlaywrightGet TogetherI Can Do It Author:Scott Raab
“Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.” IfsFirstsStillsI CanBigsCan DoLevelsPayBig ThingsHigh Level Author:Scott Raab
“All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.” ThinkingI CanCan DoInformationRepeats Author:John Mellencamp
“No one can tell me what to do on my skateboard. My skateboard is my safe spot. I can learn tricks, I can have fun, I can do whatever I want on my skateboard.” WantI CanFunCan DoSafeTricksSpotsHaving Fun Author:Ryan Sheckler
“First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.” FirstsBelieveHumansWellsPersonsI CanTwoEnoughCan DoHuman BeingsFrontsTomorrowTrainingLegsBelieve In YourselfI Can Do ItBeliveJust Believe In Yourself Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“I wake up with new dreams every day. So the more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me. And the older I get, the earlier I get up. The second my feet hit the floor, I'm awake. I'm like hurry, hurry. I just love life. And I feel like we ain't got but a certain amount of time anyway. I want to make the most of all of it.” WantFeelsI CanDreamCertainCan DoFeetAmountWake UpGet UpAwakeLove Life Author:Dolly Parton
“Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?” KnowsI CanSometimesMovingSpiritCan DoHealedWondrous Book:Toma interior Source: Toma interior
“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.” I CanSelfActorsCan DoCompanyPlayerIdentityJokesTheaterCertaintyVarietyPermanentUnwillingTroupe Author:Philip Roth
“Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission.” PeopleI CanHappensCan DoRight NowStrategyInsightMissionsBreakthroughCan Do Something Author:Tony Robbins
“I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.” I CanPlayCharacterVoiceCan DoTransformationAccents Author:Jessica Chastain
“You know what? I'm not going to beat myself up. I did the best I can do, and so I'm going to believe that - I'm going to believe good things about myself.” KnowsBelieveI CanCan DoBeatsGood Things Author:Joel Osteen
“I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor.” FeelsI CanDesireActorsCan DoParticularAmountComfortable Author:Woody Allen
“As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.” LongI CanEnjoyCan DoAudiencePassionateEnthusiasmCan Do Something Author:Dwayne Johnson
“I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.” KnowsWantI CanImportantPlayJobsCertainCan DoRolesGood Job Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.” MadeI CanChoicesCan DoMorningCommitmentWake UpExcitedEvery MorningOverwhelmedComplacentCan Do Something Author:Gary Holland
“I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.” IfsWayWantI CanImportantIdeasCan DoKnowingDirectResponseCraveI Can Do It Author:Errollyn Wallen
“I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.” PeopleIfsWantYearsI CanCoursesCan DoCompassionPaintingCommunicationLaughterHundredAnd LovePaintColourMaking People Happy Author:Norval Morrisseau
“I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.” WantI CanFoundCan DoRecordsPositionProduceLuckyDollarsSlave Author:Robbie Robertson
“[Demystifying lesbian sex for an interviewer] In a way, the sex isn't really that different... From what I can tell, no, not really. All the things that men and women do together, think of everything that men and women do together, women and women can do together. And that makes you realize that sex is just simply about connecting with another person, or about intimacy.” ThinkingMenWayPersonsI CanDifferentTogetherSexCan DoRealizingMen And WomenIntimacyConnectingInterviewers Author:Jennifer Beals
“My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.” I CanProblemVoiceCan DoMy OwnRocksLikesRock Music Author:Lucy Lawless
“I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansI CanShowsHappensChoicesCan DoOpinionSmartAssGood PeopleBeing HumanDo The BestBeing SmartSubjectivityIncumbentsGood Choices Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.” I CanWarJobsCan DoSecuritySafeDown AndTerrorTerroristGuaranteesCaptureSmarterHuntsHomelandWar On TerrorGuarantees ThatBetter JobsHomeland Security Author:John F. Kerry
“I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.” ThinkingKnowsI CanCultureNamesLanguageGivenCan DoGreat ThingsDefinedCompliment Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."” ThinkingI CanCan DoTalentSkillsPerformancesReachingBroadwaySharpeningBest PerformanceZenith Author:Michael Jackson
“Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, I'm so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry.” FeelsI CanSometimesCan DoAliveSkyCryZoom Author:Michael Franti
“If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!” PeopleIfsI CanCan DoWelcomeWet Author:Yuri Gagarin
“I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.” PeopleI CanCan DoComedyDramaBack And ForthSwitching Author:Kaitlyn
“Creativity is a celebration of life... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!” I CanCan DoCreativityLove LifeCelebrationI Love LifeCelebration Of Life Author:Joseph C Zinker
“When my mind is operating at its peak, it should depress me to think that this is the best I can do, because it's not very good at all. When my mind is operating normally, I should be even more depressed.” ThinkingShouldMindI CanCan DoVery GoodDepressing Author:John S. Hall
“I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties--or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to.” IfsWorldWantWellsI CanRealOrderCan DoIllusionDifficultyWell BeingReal WorldI Can Do This Author:Silver RavenWolf
“It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.” ThinkingWritingMindFirstsStillsI CanDifferentSometimesStoriesAgeSidesCan DoCasesGrowingGrewSittingStressDown AndYeahGuitarTensionPilotsAirlineSitting DownPlumberThinking RightAirline Pilots Author:Tim Lebbon
“Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.” ThinkingKnowsWritingYearsSaidI CanStoriesGuyCan DoBoysOfficeHandleHeyDo You KnowThey SaidI Can Do ItSeventeenSeventeen Years Old Author:Stan Lee
“I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.” I CanCan DoResponsibilityAcceptingLaughingHappenedFrontsResponsibleSoldierJewEastRidiculousBoatGermanyWarfareNavy Author:Karl Donitz
“With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.” PeopleWantLooksI CanCan DoWealthExampleLook UpUp To YouGood Examples Author:Devin Hester
“The most important thing is not the work I can do for God. The most important thing is to make God the most important thing.” I CanImportantCan DoImportant Things Author:Phil Vischer
“Each time I think I've made a connection with someone... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later, everything changes. Invariably they freak. They get retroactively paranoid, wondering what else Clark Kent is hiding from them.” ThinkingMadeI CanCan DoHoursWonderConnectionsHidingFreakThings ChangeParanoidKent Author:Mark Waid
“The best thing you can do is go away from this saying, 'I can do this too,' because it's all possible and I'm living proof.” I CanCan DoProofBest ThingsGoing AwayI Can Do ThisLiving Proof Author:Ralph Lauren
“If there's something I can do and I feel it should be done, I just want to do it. I just don't want to leave it undone because I'll sit back and say, why didn't I do that? Why didn't I start that business?” IfsWantFeelsShouldI CanDoneCan DoUndone Author:Robert Johnson
“After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldFeelsYearsSaidI CanHardGamesStrongCan DoPowerfulFiveStreetsWalkingFameThirdsBallsHarderBoxesHardestHallsYankeesNew York YankeesHall Of FameSandyI Can Do ThisThrowers Author:Jim Bouton
“Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.” WayFeelsI CanPainCan DoSpecialDutyStoresFeel GoodTherapyTensionMusclesInjuryRemoveSpecial PlacesI Can Do This Author:Douglas Coupland