Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place.… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
I have a really interesting political point of view, and its not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here,… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Regard this fleeting world like this: Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast-moving stream, like morning dewdrops… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage. — Amy Hill Hearth Copy Share Image
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main… — Billy Gardell Copy Share Image
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages… — Dogen Copy Share Image
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Besides, the sense of safety offered by bottled water is a mirage. It turns out that breathing, not drinking, constitutes our main… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
