(19 quotes found)
“We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”
Susan Sontag
“INCONCEIVABLE!”
The Princess Bride
“At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.”
Ann Radcliffe
“I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people, that I started to get any work.”
Catherine Zeta Jones
“I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.”
William S. Gilbert
“My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.”
“It's not inconceivable, but we did put ourselves behind the eight ball a little bit. We have to take care of our business and hope GV can knock off Turlock.”
Marcus Knott
“Early versions of the infrastructure is either in place or being put in place. It's not inconceivable that in three to five years we'll be able to assemble all our financial data on one site.”
Jaime Punishill
“I can't say that it's inconceivable that a situation could arise where there would be... ... You haven't argued that.”
Harry Edwards
“We are not interested in dignifying something so outlandish and inconceivable with a response.”
Scott McClellan