Improbable Quotes

156 quotes by 121 authors

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates… — Michael Leunig
And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl'… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. — William Shakespeare
However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God… — Richard Dawkins
Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's… — Richard Dawkins
Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable. — Sean Connery
Many people who have been around boxing all those years never had a champion, certainly a heavyweight champion....For that to happen in one's lifetime is… — Cus D'Amato
It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more… — Allan Bloom
It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. — E T A Hoffmann
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps… — Stephen Jay Gould
Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life… — Janice Erlbaum
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. — Rod Serling
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -… — H. L. Mencken
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas
As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral… — Colson Whitehead
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the… — Eduardo Galeano
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable. — Al Gore
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. — Stephen Jay Gould
It's impossible that the improbable will never happen. — Emil Julius Gumbel

Who Wrote These Improbable Quotes

121 authors contributed a total of 156 Improbable Quotes, led by these top contributors: