Illusions Quote by Dinaw Mengestu

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're…

— Sarah McLachlan

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

— Edwin Louis Cole

“We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur.”

— Khushwant Singh

I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something…

— Erin Morgenstern

I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted…

— Amy Poehler

“Even on the highest levels it was smoke and mirrors; everyone was furnishing a stage set.”

— Donna Tartt

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

— Mark Ruffalo

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with…

— Charlize Theron

If Hip Hop is all smoke and mirrors, then I'm the Windex and a napkin New dudes is whack, some vet's is has-been's Some…

— Joe Budden

I should've been following my first instinct, I would've stayed so far away from you. But you decieved me, had me believing that every…

— Anonymous

“It was a life lesson I learned way too early. Pick your heart up off the floor when it was smashed, put it back…

— Adriana Locke

“That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.”

— Mary Pauline Lowry