#conceivable

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever. ↗

— Debra Winger

#make #money #movie #movie star #pampered

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#conflicts #crises #inconceivable #marriage #nation

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#conceivable #controls #covert #impose #irresistible

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#biography #cannot #case #circumstance #conceivable

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#body #chance #create #crowd #given

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#conceivable #down #extremely #important #inner

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

#activities #against #arrested #been #both

Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#family

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#inconceivable #incredible #itself #like #music

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists. ↗

— David Chalmers

#agree #argue #because #certain #conceivable