Quotes of: Improbable Keyword

Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever been suggested. Intelligent design suffers from exactly the same objection as chance. It is simply not a plausib...

The God Delusion

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.

Imperfect: An Improbable Life

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

Dog Water Free, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

Dog Water Free, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

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.

The God Delusion

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul