Illusion Quotes
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
Walker Evans -
There are optical illusions in time as well as space.
Marcel Proust
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
Hal Sparks -
It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.
Han Suyin -
For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
Oren Peli -
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts.
Lesley Lawson -
I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.
Ingrid Betancourt
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
Ramana Maharshi -
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
A woman should be an illusion.
Ian Fleming -
We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
Sherman Alexie -
The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
Zack Snyder
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
Pat Metheny -
Despair is the only cure for illusion.
Alexander Lowen -
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
Emile Zola -
I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.
Bertice Berry
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There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.
Boy George Culture Club -
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?
Honore de Balzac -
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
Barry Ritholtz -
Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.
Luke Rhinehart