Ability

Famous quotes containing the word ability:

“It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

“It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing. Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)