Pick a theme for your material, and stick to it for the entirety of the piece. The repetition of certain key phrases,… — Ivo Graham Copy Share Image
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“And he couldn't stand to be nothing, to know himself to be nothing. He needs to be listened to, he needs to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course,… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted… — Priscilla Presley Copy Share Image
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“What the hel—” “Finally! I can talk!” Janco said. Ari turned. Janco held the Sandseed’s scimitar in his hand. The man lay… — Maria V Snyder Copy Share Image
“Today's education is entirely defective to the extent that, calling itself positivist, it begins with abusing the child's trust by presenting as… — André Breton Copy Share Image
Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth.… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Debts grow and grow. And the more they grow, the more they shrink the economy. When you shrink the economy, you shrink… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Intoxication caused by whatever one possesses is all (part of) body-complex (pudgal); be it education, knowledge or anything else, that is all… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world.… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..ıs… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
“It’s all biology. If it weren’t for two thousand years of the Christian tradition we wouldn’t think of pretending otherwise…Romance is the… — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
“Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die — illusions, gushes of personality.… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“Having control is an illusion. Yes, you plan. Yes, you calculate the risks, but after you’ve done that, you hold your nose… — Tonya Lampley Copy Share Image
I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Everything in the world is vitrag (free from attachment), but one ‘himself’ has become attached through attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh), and then he says,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
It's so easy to lie. What’s even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The idea that time is an illusion is an old one, predating any Times Square ball drop or champagne celebrations. It reaches… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men,… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination;… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
