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KAY YONG We have no information that something particular has happened.
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SEAN GIBSON There is no point in doing something unless you do it well.
BARBARA DELINSKY The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the he...
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So m...
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JAMES WYATT With God, the word ‘impossible’ is itself impossible.
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EDY GANEM Joyful, as he experiments. And 'experiment' is an important word to describe that.
ROSE ROSETREE The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary.
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MARK HADDON Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
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STEVE BULLOCK Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity...
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JAMES ACKER An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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JACOB LAWRENCE The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
HARRISON FORD A successful person will never use the word ‘no’, ‘I cannot’ or ‘it is impossible
SUNDAY ADELAJA A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.
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PIERS ANTHONY Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie -...
JOHN SHELTON REED If I where to describe myself in one word, a new word should be made.
ANONYMOUS My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and aga...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
JOSé SARAMAGO Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
JOSE SARAMAGO Their eyes said that... they did know the meaning of the word 'fear'. It was something that happened...
TERRY PRATCHETT Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
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BILL WOHLERS If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business -- Or two words Big Business." -- ...
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DAN STESSEL Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
SHANNON L. ALDER This was huge, there is no other way to describe it.
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ISAAC ASIMOV There is no evidence other than the word of this one complaining person that any rape or sexual assa...
JOSEPH CHESHIRE Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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WALTER LIPPMANN It's not something I feel, It's not a word in my vocabulary and I don't know why it happened it just...
DAVE LENIHAN ...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a m...
VICTOR HUGO Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
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MICHIO KAKU You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousa...
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Their language is organised noise, lik...
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
DOUGLAS ADAMS In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anything that is in the world when youre born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
DOUGLAS ADAMS If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non...
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