Illusion Quotes
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Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.
William V. Shannon
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Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
Erwin McManus
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If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
Albert Einstein
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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard
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If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.
Brian Andreas
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Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?
Walt Whitman
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There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
Tony Kushner
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I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
Pablo Picasso
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The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.
Marianne Williamson
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Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more.
Ang Lee
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No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.
Hal Rothman
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.
Eve Ensler
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The whole thing's illusion, Jacob, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.
Sara Gruen
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But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.
Aimee Carter
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The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
August Strindberg
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If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg for his mercy without any deceit then the spiritual master bestows all auspiciousness upon us.
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati
