A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I… — Brett Weston Copy Share Image
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
I'm a huge John Hughes fan, and I grew up in the '80s, when his films came out. So, my introduction to… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to… — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved… — Lance Secretan Copy Share Image
We in Europe must not indulge the illusion that we could shut ourselves away from the world if it goes to pieces,… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the… — Marcel Proust 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
Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It had been three weeks, four days and twelve hours since I'd seen her. Since she'd torn my heart out. If I… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. "Very nice," said Briar with… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“When the wrong belief [of ‘I am Chandubhai’] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. After the light is let in to our self-perceptions, we immediately… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia,… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images.… — James Framo Copy Share Image
“But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
“Since everything is only an illusion, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or… — Jeff Foster Copy Share Image
“To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into others' shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong… — Paul Gagnon Copy Share Image
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam.… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion.… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image