Best Suspension Sayings

79 Suspension quotes by 72 unique authors

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens… — Edward Norton
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's… — Stephen Sondheim
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There… — Robert Henri
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. — Norman Mailer
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled… — Joan Didion
Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections. — E L Konigsburg
There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly… — Zelda Fitzgerald
We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.… — Timothy Keller
I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief. — Melissa Bank
Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness,… — Ayn Rand
A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once,… — Karen Russell
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction… — Flannery O'Connor
It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring… — William Faulkner
Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the… — Joseph McCabe
By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance. — Sextus Empiricus
Democratic constitutions do allow some suspension of rights in states of emergency. Thus rights are not always trumps. But neither is necessity. Even in times… — Michael Ignatieff
The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium. — Joseph Bologna
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued… — Criss Angel
To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant… — Unknown Author
Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised. — Superman
Lollipops turn into cigarettes. The innocent ones turns into sluts. Homework goes into the trash. Detention becomes suspension. Mobile phone are used in class. Soda… — Kayla
Love is the suspension of reality in favor of the sublime. — Jeffrey Fry
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 create anything. — Dave Winer

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