Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.
It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible. [Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]
To rule out the possibility of belief in another's reality is to encapsulate that reality and, thus, to impose implicity the hegemony of one's own view of the world.
Those words make a mockery of our battle. Our fight showed me the power of the human will and the possibilities held by the future
One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.
Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
I would advise anyone starting out as a singer/songwriter to play live as much possible. You never know who might be in the audience.
Peace is possible because it is today more than ever desperately necessary
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.
