History Quotes / ShownTheirWork

->''"The geology and stones of VideoGame/DwarfFortress are based on [[RealLife real-world]] [[ShownTheirWork geology and mineralogy]]. To understand the terms used here, you may want to crack open a geology textbook (a high-school one should suffice). If you don't happen to have one close by, the Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} articles for geology, mineralogy, or the terms in question might help."''

-> '''Bill''': I bet that two years after [[Film/CoolAsIce this,]] [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001405/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr9 the DP]] was always saying stuff like, "For this scene, where [[Film/SchindlersList Schindler]] weeps at the sight of dozens of dead Jewish children, I'll use the same lighting rig as the construction site scene in Film/CoolAsIce."
-> '''Kevin''': Yeah, and then seven years later, he'd be all like, "Well, thanks for your opinion, [[
Creator/StevenSpielberg Steven,]] but I think I'm will prepared to shoot [[Film/SavingPrivateRyan the massacre of thousands on Omaha Beach]], having filming Deezer D making a sandwich!"
-> '''Mike''': Yeah, and then seventeen years later, he'd say, "I'd always thought Film/CoolAsIce would be the worst thing I ever worked on, but wow, a '[[
Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull Crystal Skull,]]' you say?"

-> '''Bill''': I bet that two years after [[Film/CoolAsIce. this,]] [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001405/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr9 the DP]] was always saying stuff like, "For this scene, where [[Film/SchindlersList Schindler]] weeps at the sight of dozens of dead Jewish children, I'll use the same lighting rig as the construction site scene in Film/CoolAsIce."

-->-- '''[[BigNameFan Stephen J. Gould]]''', foreword to ''Literature/DanceOfTheTiger''

->''"Kurtén has managed to insinuate into his story — in a way so subtle and natural that we can scarcely recognize he is teaching as well as novelizing — every fact and theory that I know (and several, undoubtedly, that I don't) about Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, human evolution during the Ice Age, glacial geology, and ecology and behavior of the great Ice Age mammals, including mammoths and saber-toothed tigers."''

->''"... Uh, so this is how Creator/HideoKojim} [[VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}} picks up women in bars, basically; he flexes his biology dick.]]"''

->''"And the award for the most pretentious title goes too... 'Wrongs Darker than Death or Night'! In a hotly competitive race against other stalemates such as 'Nor the Battle to the Strong', 'The Darkness and the Light', 'Ties of Blood and Water' and '[[AltumVidetur Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges]]', this has to be the most tongue twistingly over the top episode title. Especially when the wrongs aren’t anywhere near as dark as death or night. I realise a lot of these titles have been selected from poems and sayings but the sad truth of the matter is that plenty of poetry and proverbs are pretty pretentious, too."''

!!!On works