However Improbable Quotes

#1. Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.

John Sandford

#2. Picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.

Amor Towles

#4. Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

Terry Pratchett

#5. However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.

Richard Dawkins

#6. Wertheimer was afraid of losing his unhappiness and killed himself for this and no other reason, I thought, with

Thomas Bernhard

#7. starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.

Cathy Moriarty

#9. I don't like work
no man does
but I like what is in the work
the chance to find yourself. Your own reality
for yourself not for others
what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.

Joseph Conrad

#10. I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

Johnny Winter

#11. When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Thoughts can propel our lives in many different directions. However, it is our choice which ones to believe. And those are the ones capable of making the improbable possible.

Charles F. Glassman

#13. The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young.

Penelope Cruz

#14. It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, unless the truth is a hypothesis it didn't occur to you to consider.

Jordan Ellenberg

#15. Eliminate the impossible, and what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. This history must sometimes see with Little Dorrit's eyes, and shall begin that course by seeing him.

Charles Dickens

#17. The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.

Terry Pratchett

#18. Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

Douglas Adams

#19. When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. There is no moral to my song,
I praise no right, I blame no wrong;
I tell of things that I have seen,
I show the man that I have been
As simply as a poet can
Who knows himself poet and man.

Thomas MacDonagh

#21. The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

Margaret Atwood

#22. Well, I think," said Nobby, "that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for on a cold night wonderin' about when you could be getting on the outside of a big drink.

Terry Pratchett