Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man,… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. — John Cudahy Copy Share Image
The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free. — Laura Anne Gilman Copy Share Image
Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break. — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend. — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
“You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The letting go is an energetic process that moves us in a different flow of reality beyond the illusion and into more… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
“We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Safety is an illusion, and trying to protect ourselves does nothing more than protect us from experiencing a full, evolved, and juicy… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is… — Justin Raimondo Copy Share Image
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I think it just really excites me, the idea of delving so far into a character that people actually believe it's real,… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
“The consciousness inhabiting your body is exactly the same as the consciousness inhabiting my body. We are one. The delusion that we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“they say that everything in the world is an illusion, that it’s not real. but how’s it an illusion? who’d say those… — li hongzhi Copy Share Image
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it:… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.” — Lauren Zimmerman Copy Share Image
I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion. — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
“Vision without an Action is Illusion. Action without a Vision is Confusion.” — Sunny John Copy Share Image
“...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
''There is no truth it is an illusion created by the mind to control your thoughts and perception'' — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions. — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Things happen, I thought, and we respond. That's what it all comes down to. To believe anything else, as far as I… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Old wounds heal within, because of moha (infatuation due to illusion). Otherwise, one would be overcome by dispassion for the worldly life… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The hairline difference between imagination and hallucination is that imagination finds always limitless reality, whereas hallucination binds itself within the limits of… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image