#disbelief

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

#create #deliberately #disbelief #exploded #infrastructure

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#business #disbelief #force #government #into

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

#disbelief #down #dressing #gave #go

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

— Ed Wood

#do you know #haven #heard #know #suspension

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

#cgi #disbelief #effects #events #hit

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#belief #disbelief #metaphysics #reality #theism

She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see the way he was looking at her—right through her—without seeing her. He did not see a woman. He did not see Jane, the woman he had been so passionate with two days before. He saw… Jane swallowed hard and looked away, hating the weakness of her spirit. She was more than this, a wilting flower. She was stronger than this. But damn it, this hurt. It hurt because he was the man responsible for making her burn. For making her feel like a woman. It hurt because it had been a trick. An illusion. And it hurt most of all because he did not see her, the woman she was behind the unfashionable spectacles and garish hair. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#disbelief #love #beauty

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

#about #achieve #actor #audience #character

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story. ↗

— Edward Norton

#certain #disbelief #drama #get #i

Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing. And yet, my realization that they didn't know what I'd been through was like a cold shower for just a moment. Here I was looking at the first really familiar faces I'd seen in over a year, and they acted as though I'd merely been on vacation. ↗

— Diet Eman

#diet