Famous quotes containing the word unable:
“He is like a comedian who for over thirty years has been unable to think of any new jokes.”
—Edward James (1907–1984)
“The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, nearsightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)