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
The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Maybe she'd just say she ran into a door; that seemed infinitely more plausible than the truth.” — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence. — Willie Soon Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Plausible development, building from what we know about what really did go on, and a whacking good story… Surrounded by Enemies delivers… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie… — Dave Cook Copy Share Image
I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is… — Phillip Sandifer Copy Share Image
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy. — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book.… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible. — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
The real news has gotten more surreal and absurd, and my fake news, if you want to call it that, has gotten… — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead. — Ray Ozzie Copy Share Image
I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
![“I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went…” quote by Dave Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5c2/dave-cook-79966_brain_i-became-so-desperate-that-i-considered_1855322.jpg)
![“. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people who have no interest in a communal solution to the distortions in our lives will have to face up [to] this ecological reality. Unless we transform our relationship with nature, we…” quote by Michael Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/390/michael-lerner-34328_contemplation_the-upsurge-of-spirit-is-the-only-plausi_1184799.jpg)
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