Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement. – Peter Weir
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. – Roald Dahl
Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur. – Oliver Joseph Lodge
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. – Queen Elizabeth II
I was thinking of writers living in East Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They wrote fantastic stuff but were dealing with a situation that was almost impossible to deal with, but they found a way. – Romesh Gunesekera
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down… Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything. – Robert Schumann
Nothing could do more harm to America’s national security than a carbon-restricted, depressed economy that would make funding our military impossible. – Robert Zubrin
If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace. – Robert Cailliau
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. – Samuel Johnson
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. – Piers Anthony
We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder – some would say impossible – to imagine the end of our very existence. – Paul Bloom
It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It’s still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early ’80s. – Renny Harlin
I created ‘Dinner: Impossible’ with a guy named Bryan O’Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it. – Robert Irvine
It was impossible for Hillary Clinton to have chosen a path to the White House that bypassed the loathing, jeering derision and gendered stereotyping built on two centuries of male power. What was interesting was how hard she tried to do just that. – Rebecca Traister
The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough. – Orison Swett Marden
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can’t imagine something that has never existed before, it’s impossible. – Rita Dove
It’s impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I’ve never been so much into runs as making single notes cry. – Robin Trower
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. – Robert Southey
I don’t think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it’s like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that’s impossible. – Paul Michael Glaser