Fictitious Quotations

Never in the history of 'The Shield' was the word 'LAPD' ever mentioned. We would mention districts, like Wilshire and Hollenbeck and Marina, but Farmington was a fictitious district, and we never actually uttered the word 'LAPD.' So that was sort of the deal we made with them.

I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.

Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.

It's a fictitious one called Devil's Island that is ridiculously difficult.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

They had no reason to suspect he had sucked equity out of the home into a fictitious account for himself.

We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

Marco really kind of honors these characters ... they are not just these made-up fictitious people, but are based very closely on his family, so I felt confident going forward that he would really respect them and not sell the show out.

And if you then want to play it yourself, you better understand accounting. You better understand discounted cash flow because stocks are not lottery tickets. They are real companies and eventually they can only grow as far as their real earnings, not their fictitious earnings.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.