Suspension Quotes

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

  Robert Henri

  Bridges, Add, Lines

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Thinking, Bridges, Space

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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

  Lionel Trilling

  Life, Art, Disbelief

  "A Gathering of Fugitives: New Essays (The Novel Alive or Dead)". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1956.

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

  Ed Wood

  Disbelief, Heard, Havens

  "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.

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• Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Belief, Judgment

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.18

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• I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.

  Michael Light

  Sublime, Idyllic, Noble

  Interview with Lawrence Weschler, believermag.com. November 1, 2010.

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• When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  People, Acting, Actors

  "Helena Bonham Carter Talks BURTON AND TAYLOR, Elizabeth Taylor vs Queen Elizabeth, Signing on to the Project, Consulting an Astrologer and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.

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• That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Statistics, Poetic, Moments

  Biographia Literaria ch. 14 (1817)

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• I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

  Melissa Bank

  Real, Love Is, Disbelief

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.72, Penguin

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• California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

  Joan Didion

  Loss, California, Uneasy

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.125, Zola Books

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• Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Reading, Acceptance

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• Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Errors, Two

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• George W. Bush was interviewed by NBC. He was on the Today show and he was asked about President Trump's visa suspension. They asked Bush what he thinks about this, and if I'm not mistaken, I don't think he mentioned [Donald] Trump by name, but he said "I wish our immigration system were more welcoming," is what he said.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Nbc, Names

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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, alive with a lonely purity. It went on and on, until my own lungs were burning. “What bird are you calling?” I asked finally, when I couldn’t stand it any longer. The Bird Man stopped whistling. He grinned, so that I could see all his pebbly teeth. “You.

  Karen Russell

  Lonely, Fall, Men

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• To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

  Joan Didion

  Believe, Ethical, Certain

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• One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Axes, Two, Wheels

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.

  Peter Greenaway

  Intelligent, Understanding, Want

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• Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Intuition, Logic, Instinct

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.

  Maxine Kumin

  Writing, Needs, Nests

  Maxine Kumin (1996). “Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories”

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• The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

  Joseph Bologna

  Bologna, Film, Stage

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• 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

  Law, Ease, Civility

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• Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

  Elena Ferrante

  Writing, Needs, Disbelief

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

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• Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Motor Oil, People, Patient

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• The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

  Diogenes

  Gratitude, Judgement, Mind

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• 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

  Agreement, People, Doe

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