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Letter "I" » inconceivable
«To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.»
Author: Aaron Copland
(Composer)
| About:
Music,
Time
| Keywords:
flow, flowed, flow out, inconceivable, incredible, stop, stopping
«The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
dynamics, inconceivable, isolate, obscure, oppressor, rebellion, slaves, The Genius
«A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.»
Author: Barbara Holland
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
bite, buffalo, buffaloed, herd, herding, his pen, inconceivable, keys, notes, pen, penned, perverse, room, taste, typewriter, typewriters, walk-on, writer
«There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| About:
Soul
| Keywords:
disembodied, dispassionateness, haunting, inconceivable
«To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
active, address, excess, hiding, inconceivable, in essence, I Want You, message, one and the same, paradox, resolve, The Message, totally
«What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.»
«Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
| About:
War
| Keywords:
accumulate, experienced, friction, inconceivable, producing, simplest
«INCONCEIVABLE!»
Author: The Princess Bride
| Keywords:
inconceivable
«This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
inconceivable, ours, practical, religious belief, religious beliefs
«How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!»
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