If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward… — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing.… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of… — Michael Isikoff Copy Share Image
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. — Joey Skaggs Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
In fact, the very nature of an X-event is that it is both rare and surprising. So I would not say that… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
I'd never been interested in the Kennedy assassination until '88, when I read Libra. And from that point, I went out and… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
