Reality Is Unrealistic/Quotes: Difference between revisions
(added a quote from the "Quotes Looking for An Article" page) |
(update links) |
||
Line 13:
{{quote|Reality makes a ''[[Precision F-Strike|crappy]]'' special effects crew.
|Adam Savage, ''[[
{{quote|Truth of course must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
|
Revision as of 01:59, 11 April 2017
Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance. —Folklorist Linda Degh
|
I didn't think it was very realistic in the movie and it turns out it's pretty realistic. —Dwight Schrute, The Office, "Stress Relief"
|
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. —Niels Bohr
|
Man, reality sucks! —The Cat, Red Dwarf
|
Reality makes a crappy special effects crew. —Adam Savage, MythBusters
|
Truth of course must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. |
House: I was not wrong. Everything I said was true. It fit. It was elegant. |
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. —The Guide itself, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
|
'Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange; |
Few people have the imagination for reality. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
|
That's the difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense. |
Do you want to know the greatest and also the worst device that humans ever invented? —Dr. Londes, Cowboy Bebop
|
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. —Alex, A Clockwork Orange
|
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. —Tom Wolfe, Advice to Writers
|
For example, few novels contain plot twists like the ones in the news story about a band of thieves posing as police officers who were forced by circumstances to try to arrest a group of policemen disguised as a gang of thieves. —W. Lance Bennet, News: The Politics of Illusion
|
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. —Dune
|
"These days we have become all too desensitised to violence on paper and on screen: real life violence is not ‘Schwarzenegger violence’, it does not have a certificate or a schedule; it is protracted, unglamorous, long-lasting and ruthless."
—Lysander, Review of Buyer's Market by Peter Sotos
|