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Quotes About Suspension

Los racimos de bayas y los limones cuelgan, firmes y jóvenes, y aprenden a convertirse en una carga, manchados por el agua que hace que también aprendan a cargar, la extrañeza de hallarse suspendidos, de llevar algo más que sus pequeños cuerpos en el aire.
~ Robin Myers
A suspension program like TRX provides consistency, is great for strength training, and you can do it anywhere, which is good for us because we're always on the go!
~ Heather O'Reilly
They say you can see all the beauty in the world in the way a hanged man swings.
~ Joe Abercrombie
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
Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
A suspension of time, a continuous present.
~ Edward Abbey
Marie-Laure hesitates over the open door, smelling the fires from outside and the clammy, almost opposite smell washing up from the bottom. Smoke: her great-uncle says it is a suspension of particles, billions of drifting carbon molecules. Bits of living rooms, cafés, trees. People.
~ Anthony Doerr
The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.
~ Rhys Ifans
You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.
~ Robert Caro
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater
~ Roman Polanski
that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Carrying such a tension of the opposites is like a Crucifixion. We must be as one suspended between the opposites, a painful state to bear. But in such a state of suspension the grace of God is able to operate within us. The problem of our duality can never be resolved on the level of the ego; it permits no rational solution. But where there is consciousness of a problem, the Self, the Imago Dei within us can operate and bring about an irrational synthesis of the personality.
~ John A. Sanford
As yet God suspends me between heaven and earth, as a meteor; and I am not in heaven because an earthly body clogs me, and I am not in the earth because a heavenly soul sustains me.
~ John Donne
Tive a impressão de que voar submetesse todas as coisas a um processo de simplificação e suspirei, tentei me abandonar.
~ Elena Ferrante
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
~ John J. Sirica
Another form on sagacity and self-defence consists in reacting as seldom as possible and withdrawing from situations and relationships in which one would be condemned as it were to suspend ones 'freedom', ones initiative, and become a mere reagent.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
For the 'Heaven' stage, the dancers and I don't use wires so we are slowly slipping down the stage if you see us up close.
~ Lee Tae-min
We take every single allegation of Islamophobia seriously and where we do find party members or people who hold positions in local government doing things we suspend them, we investigate thoroughly.
~ Kemi Badenoch
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.
~ Rudolf Arnheim
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.
~ Margaret Atwood
It was hard to believe. The entire government, gone like that. How did they get in, how did it happen? That was when they suspended the Constitution.
~ Margaret Atwood
What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
Now, when a vampire goes underground as we call it—when he ceases to drink blood and he just lies in the earth—he soon becomes too weak to resurrect himself, and what follows is a dream state.
~ Anne Rice
Quinn gave up thinking. If he could take his head off and shove it in a deep freeze right now, he would.' – Quinn
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon