Quotes About Possibility

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

Aber mehr denn je bin ich überzeugt, dass nichts von vornherein auszuschliessen ist; dass sich immer Wertvolles - Menschen der Dinge - gerade an den unerwartetsten Orten und in den unvorhergesehensten Situationen finden lässt.

Once you have discovered the physical facts of a situation, all that remains - no matter how improbable - is more interesting.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?

Remember always that the perfect circumstances for your dream tour will never exist. "You will never simultaneously have infinite time, money, freedom and mojo," says Alastair Humphreys. "So the best time is now.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.

In television, everything is possible and nothing is sure.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.

I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

A puncher's chance means that anyone has the potential to succeed, whatever the odds or circumstances, if he or she works for it.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.

Bayern offers the young guys a huge opportunity.

The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources.

I don't think I am restricting myself to doing only comedy; I am hoping that someone offers me something else.

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

Oh man, I always try to avoid anything that I can already imagine. I want the thing that I don't even know exists.