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But I'll not reveal that plot secret, and will discuss the curious fact that both of these U.S. agencies wage what amounts to warfare in Vancouver, which is actually in a nation named Canada, which has agencies and bureaus of its own and takes a dim view of machineguns, rocket launchers, plastic explosives and the other weapons the American agents and their enemies use to litter the streets of the city with the dead. —Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005, on Ballistic: Bullets Vs. Humans Ecks vs. Sever

You can make huge coins materialize Shoot fireballs out of your hand You can grow ten times your normal size That's what it's like in Japan —Logan Whitehurst

4. The Regency bluestocking heroine can't stop saying "OK," the hero gets the date for the Battle of Waterloo wrong, somebody mentions Darwin's theory of natural selection about 50 years before Charlie-boy publishes On the Origin of the Species, and all the non-English phrases in the book are either gibberish or sound like they'd gone through several drunken rounds of translation and re-translation in Babelfish. —"Top Ten Signs You're Reading A Very Bad Romance Novel"

I have no idea if that's true. I'm just making stuff up about bears now. —Daisy Owl

Suspension of disbelief does not mean hanging it by the neck until dead. —Attributed to Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Civil War was a war that took place during a certain period in our nation's history. When, exactly? No one can say. —Crow's Civil War documentary, Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episode 805- The Thing that Couldn't Die

Schindler's List is about a wealthy entrepeneur who owns... A DINOSAUR ISLAND. The island is called... Jurassic Park. —The Chin Review review of Schindler's List.

This is the book that we are reviewing. It is called Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, and it is a tale about... about... an albino boy named Daniel, who runs a drycleaner's with his mother, and he keeps guinea pigs. —The Chin Review review of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

Fun chemistry fact, all chemical reactions stop at sub zero temperatures. —Simon Stagg Justice League TV series.

The Alchemist: And who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"? Hank: Edgar Allan Poe! The Alchemist: Not even close, Hank. —The Venture Bros

"Thus Aristotle laid it down that a heavy object falls faster than a light one does. The important thing about this idea is not that he was wrong, but that it never occurred to Aristotle to check it." —Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!..." Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it! And then he perfected it, so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. And then he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth. And then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one. And from that day forward, any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a zoo! ... Unless it's a farm! —The Soldier, Team Fortress 2

Daff: Damn you, Ketsukov! Slowbeef: What? Who the Hell's-- Daff: Ketsukov, it's the guy who invented Tetris. Slowbeef: NO IT ISN'T IT'S ALEXEI PAJITNOV YOU FUCK! ... Oh why did I say that on camera. —A Retsupurae MST

"Guess he didn't research on how gold is generally discovered. *whispers* Here's a hint: it generally doesn't involve digging." —The Nostalgia Chick on Radcliffe's plan to find gold.

The entire Left Behind series is proof that obsession need not produce curiosity -- that it is possible to spend decades obsessing over and dreading and opposing an institution and yet still never bother to learn even the most basic facts about it. —Fred Clark, TF: Must be the clouds in my eyes

I tried to find information on Al Acorn myself and I couldn't find anything, so he (The Irate Gamer) must have really done his research! —The Third Rate Gamer

Second, unlike the new atheists, I take scholarship seriously. I have written that The God Delusion made me ashamed to be an atheist and I meant it. Trying to understand how God could need no cause, Christians claim that God exists necessarily. I have taken the effort to try to understand what that means. Dawkins and company are ignorant of such claims and positively contemptuous of those who even try to understand them, let alone believe them. Thus, like a first-year undergraduate, he can happily go around asking loudly, "What caused God?" as though he had made some momentous philosophical discovery. Dawkins was indignant when, on the grounds that inanimate objects cannot have emotions, philosophers like Mary Midgley criticised his metaphorical notion of a selfish gene. Sauce for the biological goose is sauce for the atheist gander. —Michael Ruse, in the interview Dawkins et al bring us into disrepute

Reading @RichardDawkins new book “Outgrowing God”, and as an Assyriologist I've had a couple of major face-palms moments. [...] to use a phrase Dawkins seems to be very fond of in his book, “no serious scholar” should make factual errors as blatant as these. [...] Dawkins' primary concern is apparently for The Truth. I’ve only read 60 pages of the book so far, but he keeps on demonstrating to me that, if your primary concern is also for The Truth, then he's not the person to listen to. —George Heath-Whyte (on Twitter)