It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust. — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything. — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
“Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“You're seriously suggesting this?" Az interrupted, his face full of disbelief. "That I what, dump her so she kills herself? That's fucked… — Leah Clifford Copy Share Image
A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Your disbelief will cripple you, you think like that, human. Do not believe this impossible, or it will be.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate— 'let it… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible… — Aphrodite Matsakis Copy Share Image
Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
For once, his vampire expression failed him. His response was right there on his face, in full view and easily read. He… — Keri Arthur Copy Share Image
When you see a guy reading off a teleprompter or a mental teleprompter, just trying to recite a script or trying to… — Tony Khan Copy Share Image
One of the great things about having your own invisible god is you can make him/her/it as big and grand as your… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I'm magnetic," she whispered, half awed and half horrified. "I hope you don't start sticking to fridges and stuff," I said in… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“In editing a volume of Washington 's private letters for the Long Island Historical Society, I have been much impressed by indications… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
“I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
“This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
People are most shocked and most in disbelief that I go to the office every day. I have a job. When I'm… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
“While you're alive it's shameful to worm your way into the Calendar of Saints. Disbelief in yourself is more saintly. It takes… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
