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Impossible Quotes

On limits, caution, and pushing past both.

This theme opens with a deliberate caution around ever calling something impossible, then turns to fiction that works hard to make the impossible feel believable on screen. Related reading: Life.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Quotes by Agnes Repplier

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Quotes by Agnes Repplier

If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from school. Start trying to make music. If you're not going to try, then it's impossible. When you try, it's always possible.

Quotes by Afrojack

I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.

Quotes by Adora Svitak

Always Quotes

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

Quotes by Adolf Galland

I only can talk about myself and my experience. Honestly, working on your own terms is difficult for a newcomer but not impossible. I am an example of that.

Quotes by Aditi Rao Hydari

People are so quick to demonize and stereotype those on the other side that they often say that it's impossible to work with people on the other side.

Quotes by Adam Conover

Comics are regularly asked to perform for impossible rooms. They're called 'hell gigs.'

Quotes by Adam Conover

The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

Life Quotes

The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.

Quotes by Adam Braun

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Abraham Lincoln

I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.

Quotes by Abdullah II of Jordan

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

Like Quotes

My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen...

Quotes by Abbey Clancy

Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research...

Quotes by Aaron Swartz

We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

Quotes by Aaron Spelling

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I...

Quotes by A. J. Liebling

It is impossible to be taken seriously in shorts. No one has ever cared about anything said by a man in shorts.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

Me Quotes

The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of...

Quotes by Ze Frank

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these "impossible" quotes explore?
They range from being careful with the word itself, to making the impossible feel possible on screen, the limits of what can be done live versus in a studio, and a wildly descriptive aside about a rather unusual creature.
Is there a quote about being careful with the word "impossible"?
Yes — one quote says, "I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution."
Is there a quote about making the impossible seem possible in a TV show?
There is. One speaker explains that on Prison Break, being "so far-fetched," they "had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible."
Is there a quote about the difference between studio effects and live performance?
Yes — one quote notes that some things achievable "via manipulation on the computer or some kind of effect" are "nearly impossible to do live." You can browse more on our Like quotes page.
Is there a quote describing an animal in an unusually vivid way?
Yes. One quote describes the naked mole as "the ugliest freakin' creature in the world," and calls it "so radically, unbelievably disgusting." For more offbeat lines, see our Always, Life, and Me quotes pages.

Another quote is more technical, weighing what a studio can achieve through editing against what stays genuinely difficult to pull off live. Continue with Always and Like.