#plausible

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #fullest #i #i think #life

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#computation #computer #digital #fact #i

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#country #credible #done #fantastic #folk

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#atonement #beach #bit #dirty #get

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#made #plausible #prejudice

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#easy #every #neat #plausible #problem

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#dealing #head #look #most #new

As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#difficulties #find #groups #job #nominee

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage. ↗

— Edward Bond

#got #plausible #stage #truth