Richard Matheson Quotes

We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.

The longer you experience a scene, you tend to accept what's going on.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

People always get used to beauty though.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

That's the problem, we do get used to things.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

The first thing, the first element of a story that people hear, they believe it. Whether it's right or wrong.

Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you've seen.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.