Suspend Quotes

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway

Almost, Simply, Ability

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Remember, Wrong

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
John Lubbock

Duty, Judgment, Evidence

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward Gibbon

Work, Long, Single

I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.
Sylvester Stallone

Special, Seen, Hit

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
Vera Farmiga

Character, Job, Create

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe

Good, Men, Best

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
Yann Martel

Help, Ideas, Using

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.
Graeme Murphy

Emotional, Reality, Give

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
Richard Powers

Dream, Write, Space

In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.
Jim Gerlach

Action, United, Open

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
Fred Saberhagen

Good, Same, Cheerful

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
Ernest Dimnet

Else, Somebody, Judgment

It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.
Seth Grahame-Smith

Book, Lost, Goal

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

Character, Down, Story

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.
Billy Sheehan

Music, Enjoy, Often

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

Important, Effort, Story

I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.
Bev Perdue

Hope, Help, Someone

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