Ted: The last seed?
Once-ler: It’s not about what it is. It’s about what it can become. Just like – you’re not just a boy.
Tag: possibility
I look for good possibilities in movies. I don’t look for perfection.
Luke Dunphy: You can do it, dad! You’re making the impossible unimpossible!
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?
If you don’t know it’s impossible it’s easier to do. And because nobody’s done it before, they haven’t made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.
Lady Edith: I thought it was supposed to be unsinkable.
Robert: Every mountain is “unclimbable” until someone climbs it. So every ship is “unsinkable” until it sinks.
I wouldn’t say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Big things are expected of us, and nothing big ever came of being small.