My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous – I’m a structure freak. – Sophie Hannah
That’s what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It’s like magic, you know. I like that. – Venus Williams
Our lives are a sequence of things. When we’re alive, they’re continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It’s impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: ‘what next?’ – Simon McBurney
It’s impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don’t know where you’re starting from. – Suze Orman
I contend that it’s impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. – Tony Campolo
It’s hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800. – Taylor Lautner
I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology. – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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 them is basically impossible. – Ze Frank
Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right. – Sheri L. Dew
By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they? – William Westmoreland
It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy… but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. – William Lamb Melbourne
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. – Simone Weil
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. – Thomas Hardy
I think we’ve shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I’ve directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it’s impossible not to duplicate some camera angles. – Vic Morrow
The Delorean was an inferior automobile, and nearly impossible for a person of normal size like myself to enter and exit. – Thomas F. Wilson
It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system. – Sheikh Hasina
Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that ‘Star Trek’ became. It’s still almost impossible to imagine. – William Shatner
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. – Stendhal
I’m always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience. – Scott Pelley
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice. – William Glasser
It was hard enough to drive those heavy old cars back then under normal circumstances, but with a crazed monkey clawing you at the same time, it becomes nearly impossible! – Tim Flock
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. – Stephen Fry
Maybe it’s impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial. – Stephen Rodrick
I’d knocked on doors when I’d gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn’t have an agent. – Shoshannah Stern
Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn’t be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food. – Victoria Pendleton