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Quotes About Impossibility

I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.
~ Julie Plec
'Supercentenarian' is the term used by longevity experts to signify a near numerical impossibility: those who've outpaced 99.9999 percent of the population and landed in the 110+ Club.
~ Michael Paterniti
It's a small matter, but one which I think shouldn't be overlooked. - Oh Yes? And that is? - That is the simple matter that time travel is an impossibility, you craven buffoon! - Not with the latest miracle of modern horticulture...Gentlemen, please allow me to introduce you to THE TIME SPROUT ! 'Pleased to be here' said the vegetable in question.
~ Robert Rankin
What cannot be cannot be, besides witch, it's impossible.
~ Roberto Bolano
What cannot be cannot be, besides which, it is impossible.
~ Roberto Bolano
As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.
~ Robin Hobb
As well to clutch at the moon's reflection in a still midnight pond as to seek a grip on that bright mind.
~ Robin Hobb
Collin increased his own speed, tailing his doppelganger from about fifteen paces behind. The impossibility of the situation seemed like an absurd thing to think about right now as he spied on himself walking to work in the rain, yet nothing else entered his mind. It couldn't be impossible
~ Robin Parrish
How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?
~ Lisa See
Never had Miles seen a man wish more passionately to be twins; he half-expected Bothari to go into mitosis on the spot.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.
~ Louis Sachar
There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.
~ Louis Sachar
19 Miss Zarves There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.
~ Louis Sachar
No writer, even the most proficient, could re-enact in words the flow of a life lived.
~ Ruth Ozeki
one cannot seek for what he knows, and it seems equally impossible for him to seek for what he does not know. For what a man knows he cannot seek, since he knows it; and what he does not know he cannot seek, since he does not even know for what to seek.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
El caballero de la fe tiene una clara conciencia de la imposibilidad; por lo tanto, sólo le puede salvar el absurdo, y lo aprehende por medio de la fe.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Look, Grover Cleveland," one of them finally snapped at me after my third approach. "Harmoniums and water wings, diavolos and pungs we got, but Victorian easy chairs—nyet. And now, excuse me, will you? I have another nudnick here wants a round table like King Arthur's.
~ S.J Perelman
He didn't promise to always be there. Whatever Ash might think, Harry knew it was impossible. And there was no point in wishing for impossible things.
~ Sally Malcolm
Let's face it: it was impossible for them to have heard one another, much less conversed and also competed thus in song. Accelerating towards the planet, atmosphere roaring around them, how could they? But let's face this, too: they did.
~ Salman Rushdie
Her temperament, however, was Akbar's own creation. No real woman was ever like that, so perfectly attentive, so undemanding, so endlessly available. She was an impossibility, a fantasy of perfection. They feared her, knowing that, being impossible, she was irresistible, and that was why the king loved her best.
~ Salman Rushdie
Ölümün ölümcüllüÄŸü yaln?zca adaleti deÄŸil, gerçeklendirmeyi de imkans?z k?lar.
~ Salman Rushdie
Do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
~ Alexandre Dumas
We stood-- the dead child and the living --on either side of my father, both wanting the same thing. To have him to ourselves forever. To please us both was an impossibility.
~ Alice Sebold
It is easy to speak of the past, impossible to go there.
~ Joe Abercrombie