Suspension Quotes

79 Suspension quotes by 72 unique authors

Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs.… — Robert Moss
Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able… — Rebecca West
Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars exploding. Voice shot… — Andrew McMahon
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. — Robert Henri
Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.. — Guy Finley
While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing… — Earl Blumenauer
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by… — Ambrose Bierce
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on. — Jayne Anne Phillips
RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead. — Ambrose Bierce
I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since… — Marlin Fitzwater
A suspension program like TRX provides consistency, is great for strength training, and you can do it anywhere, which is good for us because we're… — Heather O'Reilly
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
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there… — Roland Barthes
For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get… — Oren Peli
What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief? — Ed Wood
Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page… — Gillian Anderson
My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics. — Traian Basescu
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as… — Sydney J. Harris
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. — Lionel Trilling
I think that there's going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our democratic rights. And… — Barbara Lee
What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in… — David
I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because… — Jonathan Nolan
There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind… — Juliette Binoche

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