“I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.” YearsWould BeTodayImpossibleMissingToughYears AgoDrivingTough TimesDaisies Author:Richard D. Zanuck
“What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back through your history books and you'll discover that just about everything you take for granted today in your daily lives was absolutely impossible not so many years ago.” YearsBelieveBookTodayImpossibleYears AgoGrantedDaily LifeBeansHistory Books Author:Martin Caidin
“When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsWellsLittlesEnoughBeautifulPowerfulImpossibleInfluenceFirst TimeYears AgoUnionsStudiosGladAtmosphereGet AwaySquaresFifteenHintsFifteen YearsDizzyBookkeepers Author:Willem de Kooning
“You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsHas BeensRealCultureWonderImagineImpossibleGroupsStyleTenSingingYears AgoIndianSouthernSignalsElectronic MusicCockneysAmalgamation Author:Alan Arkin
“Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.” YearsMillionsFiveImpossibleBuildingWasteYears AgoDollarsFive YearsSiteMillion Dollars Author:David Walker
“We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.” PeopleYearsDifferentMovingHumanityCultureSocialProcessPleasureImpossibleEconomicHundredYears AgoLifetimeEdgesBackgroundsTime TravelGlobalizationDifferent PlaceMarrying Author:Thomas Keating
“If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like you just happened to hit it. I actually like being contrarian. I would have preferred to come out three years ago when everyone was disagreeing with me. But hopefully it asks a lot of questions about our responsibility in sending young men and women to war, especially a war that's so complex, where there's no right answer, where they're forced with impossible decisions every day.” IfsMenYearsLooksTwoWarCountryFilmYoungThreeAsksDecisionAnswersHalfResponsibilityImpossibleHappenedChangedLike YouMen And WomenYears AgoComplexesHopefullyYoung ManThree YearsRight Answers Author:Paul Haggis
“It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.” YearsTodayRacePracticeImpossibleHappeningsYears AgoSlaveryContemporaryExecutionPenaltiesHauntingDeath PenaltyLynchingEerie Author:Shane Claiborne
“There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is no other possibility. Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others, but that just leaves us with only one other possibility... that life came as a supernatural act of creation by God, but I can't accept that philosophy because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.” KnowsWantYearsBelieveI CanTwoPhilosophyAcceptingCreativeImpossibleGenerationsCreationPossibilityEvolutionYears AgoExplanationBelieve In GodSpontaneousPasteur Author:George Wald