Unthinkable/reception

Famous quotes containing the words unthinkable and/or reception:

“There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)