“[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.” MenYearsStillsHandsThreeBoysImpossibleLettersMarkFellowsRoughThree YearsAwkwardDeckLikeableThree Year Olds Book:The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902
“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.” MadeLastsReadingBoysBreakImpossibleTearsRegretPrideHabitTerriblePagesChecksDialogueDespiteMade ItDirtyProseReliefRelativeShedSeniorUnstoppablePranksCronies Author:Miguel de Cervantes
“There's this thing that's come about that wasn't there when I started acting which is they do this thing called a chemistry test. They put a camera in front of two people, it's usually a boy and a girl, and they go, [whispering]. It's impossible. You can't manufacture it or film it, it just has to happen.” PeopleTwoHappensFilmGirlActingBoysImpossibleFrontsTestsCamerasChemistryWhispering Author:Cillian Murphy
“What kind of person would run for president of the United States in today's political climate? It would have to be somebody who's never really been drunk in public, who's never had an affair, who never shoplifted when they were a little boy, who never had any sort of counseling at all. I just don't know how you go through your life meeting people, experiencing everything you can, trying to absorb, and not make some of those mistakes. It's impossible.” PeopleKnowsTryingKindLittlesPersonsStatesRunningTodayPoliticalPresidentUnitedMistakeBoysUnited StatesKnow HowImpossibleMeetingsClimateAffairDrunkLittle BoysCounselingExperiencing Everything Author:Rob Lowe