Believable Quotes

121 Believable quotes by 109 unique authors

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It… — John Mayer
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. — Edward R. Murrow
One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like… — John C. Reilly
I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There… — Jill Scott
I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable. — Michael Sheen
I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring… — Sidney Sheldon
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down.… — Todd Solondz
I always try to write about believable people. — Danielle Steel
You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction. — Bradley Whitford
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination,… — Eduardo Galeano
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and… — Umberto Eco
I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the… — Terry McMillan
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in… — Colum McCann
...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness. — Lloyd Alexander
The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful… — Margaret Atwood
The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable. — Giacomo Casanova
The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable. — Louis Sachar
Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable. — Brandon Mull
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. — Flannery O'Connor
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by… — Orson Scott Card
Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what… — Chuck Klosterman
What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well as of pop… — Wendy Kaminer
There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and… — Anna Paquin
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or… — Denis Waitley
Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent… — Richard Dawkins

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