Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety,… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
I believe in evolution and I think when it comes to business and the roots of business and the fundamentals of business,… — Elliott Gould Copy Share Image
I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of… — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The latest trade of a security creates a dangerous illusion that its market price approximates its true value. This mirage is especially… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion. — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
