Unlikely Quotes · Page 6

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

— J. Michael Straczynski

I'd most prefer to be a free agent and fight up to six times a year, but that is unlikely.

— Mirko Cro Cop

“There is nothing more valuable then God's widsom. HIS teachers are sometimes the most unlikely people.”

— Shannon Alder

My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

— Douglas Coupland

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

— Max Planck

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

— Mark Haddon

With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

— Carl Pomerance

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

— Bill Condon

The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds…

— Quentin Crisp

“long odds don’t always make any difference at all. Somebody always makes up that small percentage of people to whom unlikely or…

— Gilly Macmillan

Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest…

— Bill McKibben

It should go without saying that you are not doing anything wrong by having sex in your own home, and based on…

— Mallory Ortberg

But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as…

— Stephen Hawking

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the…

— Shirley Ann Grau

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle…

— Scott Adams

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit…

— Neil Gershenfeld

Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,…

— Huston Smith

It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who…

— Sallust

You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It…

— Cassandra Clare

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your…

— Brian Molko

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of…

— Amanda Ripley

As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even…

— Ted Danson

I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want.…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own…

— Billy Wilder

Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?

— Vladimir Nabokov

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.

— John Prendergast

In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.

— Andrew Neil

Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

— Cassandra Clare

Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

— Julian Baggini

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

— Lori Lansens

If you can’t be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything

— Robert Johnson

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to…

— Dean Koontz

You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors,” Magnus said cheerfully.

— Cassandra Clare

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

— John Green

People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to.

— Noam Chomsky

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

— Michael Porter

“Why of course it's unlikely!' I said. 'Oh, by far! The awesome-est things in the world often are!”

— Al Yankovic

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

— Bruce Kovner

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.

— Steven Knight