#scenario

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#characters #exist #fantastic #film #films

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable. ↗

— Rand Beers

#cautious #dreaming #extreme #iraq #scenarios

So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#back #could #cover #fact #four

We are a step closer to it now - the doomsday scenario. ↗

— Tim Hutchinson

#doomsday #now #scenario #step

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, “if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me? ↗

— Charles Stross

#contract-law #contracts #publishing #worst-case-scenarios #business

If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career. ↗

— Roman Sebrle

#bone #career #end #had #higher

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#back #developments #future #hold #important

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#american #american media #betray #biological #chemical

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#auditory #instruments #out #players #scenario

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#became #cultural #esteemed #figure #hooked