possible quotes

I'd like to thank all those who made this possibleespecially Jack Warner

-Julie originally Julia ElizabethWells Andrews
  Speech at the Oscar ceremony when she won an Academy Award for her role in Mary Poppins, 5  Apr. Warner had rejected her for the screen role of Eliza in My Fair Lady, although she had played it to great acclaim on the stage, preferring Audrey Hepburn whose singing had tobe dubbed.  Andrews had instead taken the part in Mary Poppins.

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

- Charles Baudelaire
  Le Spleen de Paris,'Salon de1859', pt.3.

Politics is the art of the possible. See Galbraith 343:94.

- Baron Butler
The Art of the Possible.

Madame, si c'est possible, c'est fait; impossible? cela se fera. Madam, if a thing is possible, consider it done; the impossible? that will be done.

- Charles Alexandre de Calonne
Quoted in  J Michelet Histoire de la Re  volution Fran c° aise (1847), vol.1, pt.2. This has been adapted as the slogan of the US army: 'The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.'

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right.When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

- SirArthur C(harles) Clarke
  Profiles of the Future.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. See Butler176:34.

-John Kenneth Galbraith
  Letter to  John F Kennedy, 2 Mar.

Charlie Parker†always filled me with a kind of despair, because he played the way I would have liked to write, and this wasn't possible for me or anyone else. He made poetry seem word-bound.

- P(atrick) J(oseph Gregory) Kavanagh
  The Perfect Stranger, ch.5.

For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God no explanation is possible.

- George pseudonym of  George Stenius Seaton
  Prologue to The Song of Bernadette.