Impossible Quotes

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Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease… — Anaxagoras
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is… — Martin Amis
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the… — Stephen King
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old… — Georg Brandes
It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and… — Bertrand Russell
The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money… — Frederick W. Smith
In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return. — Whittaker Chambers
Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that… — Elizabeth von Arnim
I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible. — Albert Brooks
If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is… — Charles Hodge
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. — Alfred Nobel
I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible. — Skeet Ulrich
Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an… — Eric Gill
Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. — Anne Rice
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. — Norman Angell
The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for… — James F. Byrnes
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling. — Peter Jennings
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible… — Howard Barker
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism. — Chaim Potok

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