Illusion Quotes · Page 32

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

— Diane Paulus

Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.

— Libba Bray

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote…

— Frank Peretti

“Pride was an illusion, an artifice that could be set aside when circumstances warranted.”

— Alec Hutson

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

— Alan Watts

“As beautiful and euphoric as the Balloon Days could be, they were an illusion. It was time he built his life in…

— Kristi Strong

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in…

— Amy Tan

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering…

— William Golding

Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth…

— Mark Helprin

'Illusion' is a story of God's love and our hunger to find him when we're separated from him. If I can paint…

— Frank Peretti

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching…

— Chuck Close

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it…

— Todd Rundgren

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful…

— Charles Lamb

“Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those…

— Dean Koontz

This place . whats so important about it ? is it important because of our memories, those illusions of happiness that we…

— Anonymous

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Barack Obama's class has always been an illusion clouded in faculty lounge, lizard lounge talk, and Michelle Obama's class has actually been…

— Rush Limbaugh

There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Apparently when we enter the Earth existence, the third dimensional reality, we exist with a façade as actors playing various roles. For…

— Dolores Cannon

“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did…

— Suzy Kassem

Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process…

— Stephen K. Hayes

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

— Jean Rhys

Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.

— Haruki Murakami

“Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.”

— Amit Kalantri

Face your worry and see it as an illusion. It cannot exist unless you give it power and give it life.

— Robert Anthony

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

— Juliette Binoche

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

— Peg Bracken

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

— John Ortberg

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

— Amy Tan

“Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.”

— Molly Friedenfeld

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion…

— Alan Moore

Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.

— Mark McGwire

“Love can sometimes be like Magic. But Magic can sometimes...just be illusion.”

— Javan

“Time is an illusion of life; the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the…

— Leo Tolstoy

We are people maybe the last meanings, maybe the beginning the illusion of the only hope life.

— Mariana Fulger

Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window…

— Mumia Abu-Jamal