For something like 'Line of Duty' to work, it has to be both plausible and unexpected. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
“We could probably do it, figure out a plausible way to really get back her, to completely ruin her life. How hard… — Nancy S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it. . . . But I don't… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely… — David Simon Copy Share Image
When you're in zero gravity everything moves at the same speed and nothing stops it. If you throw something it travels forever… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Never trust a man whom you know to have acted like a scoundrel to others, whatever friendliness he may profess to feel… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in… — Andrea diSessa Copy Share Image
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“And on and on, and it all sounded completely, horribly plausible. Any one of a thousand options promised - basically guaranteed -… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation. — Desson Thomson Copy Share Image
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
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