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Disbelief Quotes

Disbelief Definition  
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel Trilling

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 no fourth wall.
Stephen Sondheim

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
Rex Stout

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 one. Some are more reality-based.
Gillian Anderson

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
Joseph Bologna

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
Marilyn Manson

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.
Roger Mudd

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
Ed Wood

When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.
Dennis Franz

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.
Richard Dean Anderson






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