The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations. — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do)… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“She shouted at Rune, “You did not just do that!” His deep voice sounded overhead. “How is that disbelief working out for… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“I was dizzy in that room. I felt faint with disbelief. I held on to the seat of my chair to stay… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. Will you shut up? he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry'… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character… — Richard Dean Anderson Copy Share Image
“It may be laid down broadly that irrationalism, i.e. disbelief in objective fact, arises almost always from the desire to assert something… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Almost worse than the sorrow of missing her was the fact that Mom's death had revealed everything to be meaningless. So much… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
“Some things you carry around inside you as though they were part of your blood and bones, and when that happens, there’s… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
How would you take care of it?” I asked. He shrugged. “I know some ghouls. I make a couple calls, the guys… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
On previous occasions when God incarnated on earth, the bliss of recognising Him in the incarnation was vouchsafed only after the physical… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mother… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Oh, I'll just improvise. I doubt you'll be much help. You couldn't have any real skills yet. Probably all you can do… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers… — Roger Mudd Copy Share Image
When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should… — Dennis Franz Copy Share Image
It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile. — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Disbelief in the consequences of wrongdoing has coarsened our society and alienated us one from another. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing… — Will Gluck Copy Share Image
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
All of my life I've been met with shock and disbelief if I've ever come out with anything remotely smart, as if… — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
