
“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
[The Political 'Fahrenheit' Sets Record At Box Office, The New York Times, 28 June 2004, Sharon, Waxman]
On the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 breaking all box office records for a documentary in its first weekend, and becoming the first documentary ever to become number one at the box office in North American ticket sales.
2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words].”
Speech to the Knesset, reported in Ner (October 1961)
On working on the production of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Fresno Bee interview (2015)
Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 3, Objections to the law of thought, p. 48
Context: Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.
Final statement before his execution (5 February 1999), quoted in "Man Who Killed 3 as Teen Is Among Pair Executed" in Los Angeles Times (5 February 1999) http://articles.latimes.com/1999/feb/05/news/mn-5135.
“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”
Source: On the Prowl