California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and… — Thomas A. Edison 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
If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of… — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It’s nothing to be admired. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I don't want players coming in from the college level that are either trying to avoid a suspension, declare themselves ineligible on… — Roger Goodell Copy Share Image
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't… — Dave Winer Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience.… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Be your kid's collaborative partner, but also be a collaborative partner with the folks at school. Schools can be pretty unilateral too.… — Ross W. Greene Copy Share Image
Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points… — David Copy Share Image
The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
