I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic… — Victor Salva Copy Share Image
I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the… — Cheri Huber Copy Share Image
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I… — Richard Chamberlain Copy Share Image
There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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“Examples of fractals are everywhere in nature. They can be found in the patterns of trees, branches, and ferns, in which each… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fear is just an illusion, it doesn't exist you created it. It's all in your mind. Correct the inside and the outside… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of… — David Icke Copy Share Image
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream,… — Pedro Calderon De La Barca Copy Share Image
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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
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It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our… — Rachel Caine 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
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
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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
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thus, the distance between any two galaxies increases in time, creating the illusion of mechanical motion. But in reality, galaxies just sit… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and… — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Film is a truly magical medium. You can create illusions of reality, make people think they've seen things that they really haven't… — Tom Savini Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
TV shows and movies are a rare form of atemporality, and in an ever-changing, always-on world, spoilers feel irrefutable - sheer access… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
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