Suspension Quotes

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

Faith, Moment, Willing

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 when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.
Edward Norton

Character, Person, Playing

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

Nature, Mean, Meaning

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
Rita Mae Brown

Intuition, Logic, Impatience

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
Edward Norton

While, Create, Magic

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

Sometimes, Read, Early

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

Life, Art, Willing

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 by what these people put their bodies through.
Criss Angel

Time, Through, Thought

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
David McCullough

Through, Show, Stop

I don't want players coming in from the college level that are either trying to avoid a suspension, declare themselves ineligible on their own, hire an agent and decide, 'I'm going to enter into the NFL.'
Roger Goodell

Trying, College, Themselves

People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.
George Steinbrenner

Life, Keep, Word

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 in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
Oren Peli

Real, Actor, Movie

Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
Curt Weldon

Health, Great, Care

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 a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
Earl Blumenauer

Game, Serious, Start

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.
Traian Basescu

Politics, Done, Move

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

Heard, Disbelief

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

Film, Stage, Literal

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
Robert Henri

Good, Strength, Away

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

Won, Create, Disbelief

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