Best Impossible Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.”

Believe Persons Wanted Teach Impossible Sensibility Intuitive Seductive Leading Me Impossible Things

Author:Mark Leyner

“The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.”

Impossible Definitions Insane Insanity Texas Definition Of Insanity

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.”

Literature Impossible

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.”

World Ideas Today Vision Impossible Architecture Heal Absurd Architect Old Fashioned Heal The World

Author:Thom Mayne

“I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it's impossible not to duplicate some camera angles.”

Thinking Believe Looks Different Shows Impossible Couple Scene Directors Shots Cameras Village Believe In Me Angle Duplicate Different Angles Camera Angles

Author:Vic Morrow

“With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.”

People Realizing Impossible Tvs Episodes Schedules Funny Things

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.”

Sometimes Fighting Loses Impossible

Author:Ehud Olmert

“In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].”

Helping Support Impossible Willing Return Kings England Prison Financial Jew Trials Arrangements Adequate Advise Assassins Admission Financial Support Charles I

Author:Oliver Cromwell

“A Jew remains a Jew. Assimilalation is impossible, because a Jew cannot change his national character. Whatever he does, he is a Jew and remains a Jew. The majority has discovered this fact, but too late. Jews and Gentiles discover that there is no issue. Both believed there was an issue. There is none.”

Doe Character Facts Issues Impossible Late Remains Majority Jew Too Late Gentiles

Author:Ludwig Lewisohn

“It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.”

Two Would Be Impossible Weather Range Broads Probability Publish Two Days Forecasts

Author:Antoine Lavoisier

“I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.”

Stories Bigs Certain Stuff Fire Impossible Building Let Me Get Insurance

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.”

Impossible Clique

Author:Cat Power

“For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.”

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Author:Cat Power

“To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.”

Impossible Get Real Bleak

Author:Sarah Paulson

“I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.”

Trying Interesting Audience Impossible Interviews Most Interesting Always Trying

Author:Scott Pelley

“Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.”

Ifs Needs Universe Literature Views Impossible Creator Point Of View Internals

Author:Manuel Puig

“I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.”

People Thinking Long Political Culture Courses Impossible Perspective Long Time Fascinated Secular Ignored

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.”

Ifs World Moving Perfect Impossible Rebuff

Author:Anne Roiphe

“Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.”

People Way Want Country Wanted Order Effort Impossible Solutions Our Country Peaceful Nato Serbia

Author:Ibrahim Rugova

“I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.”

Actors Difficult Impossible Trade Focused Singers Music Business Movie Business

Author:Jeremy Renner

“We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.”

Stories Dream Impossible Special

Author:Marco Rubio

“One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.”

Thinking Years Values Courses Difficult Quality Struggle Impossible Judging Educational

Author:Roy Romer

“If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.”

Ifs Has Beens Names Difficult Impossible Journalist

Author:Asne Seierstad

“For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.”

Real Done Speak Party Impossible Republican Congress Republican Party Get Real Work Done Real Work

Author:Bernie Sanders

“To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now.”

Believe Millions Five Impossible Happened Proof This Day

Author:Julius Streicher

“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.”

Social Technology Impossible Information Engineering Engaging Information Technology Social Engineering

Author:Jaron Lanier

“To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.”

People Hard Process Difficult Impossible Vote Democratic Casts Democratic Process

Author:John Lewis

“It's so hard and impossible to shoot in L.A. The costs are astronomical.”

Hard Impossible Cost

Author:Joel Silver

“I've come to the conclusion that a long personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.”

Long Next Impossible Music Is Conclusion Mistress Personal Relationships Possessive

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.”

People Break Practice Impossible Balls Court Russia Break Through Racket

Author:Marat Safin

“I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.”

Enough Dream Impossible Stage Lucky Performances Excited Actresses Really Great Juice Trust Me Get Real Pipe Great Performance Impossible Dream Pipe Dreams

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.”

Play Feelings Running Impossible Cry Notes

Author:Robin Trower

“I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!”

Knows I Can Can Do Impossible Supposed To Be Elbows I Can Do It

Author:Kate Voegele

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

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Author:Anne Frank

“To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.”

Play Able Impossible Als

Author:Charlie Watts

“My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.”

Dream Impossible Winter Fulfillment Olympics Impossible Dream Winter Olympics

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.”

Made Impossible Made It Misfortunes Posture Good Posture

Author:Loretta Young

“I do like moving my legs a lot, like maybe moon walk-y things. I don't have like one move, because I try as much as I can. But I just love imitating impossible things that dancers do.”

Trying I Can Moving Walks Impossible Moon Legs Dancer Imitating Impossible Things

Author:Lucas Till

“It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.”

Humans Emotion Impossible Mystery Limitation Overwhelming Human Intelligence Knowledge And Power Mystery Of Nature Overwhelming Emotions

Book:The Concept of Nature

Source: The Concept of Nature

“We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.”

Needs Should Body Form Causes Impossible Effects Information Objects Exercise Discovery Add Knowledge And Power

Author:Michel Foucault

“Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.”

Ifs World Way Trying Meditation Impossible Buddhism Emptiness Fullness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.”

Ifs Want Should Writing Years Long Book Real Ends Wanted Dies Novel Impossible Goes On Tradition Tragedy Wounds Real Life Scar Conventional Happy Endings Old Wounds

Author:Willa Cather

“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.”

Writing Stories Found Sides Impossible Deeper Impression

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!”

Men Government Impossible Independent Clever Likes Honorable Honorable Man

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.”

Trying Fate Impossible Doomed

Author:John Haggai

“Stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.”

Life Inspirational Believe Common Company Impossible Achieve Inspirational Life Common Sense Dreamer Believe You Can

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.”

Hard Secret Opinion Impossible Program Court Debate

Author:Al Franken

“American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.”

Men Watches Comedy Wife Impossible

Author:Joe Manganiello

“In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.”

Two Imagination Memories Fiction Impossible Witness Ingredients Broads Mills Processing

Author:Rohinton Mistry

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