I don't put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she's gone. I get in the box,… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
If there’s one thing I’ve learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion. — Elizabeth Reyes Copy Share Image
We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an… — Ivan Vladislavic Copy Share Image
Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good… — Holly Brubach Copy Share Image
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“You lost your ability to choose the moment you started to use your eyes to see, and your heart to feel. Choice… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
“Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion. — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.” — Donato Carrisi Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket.… — Max Greenfield Copy Share Image
The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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