Illusion Quotes

The soul is an illusion.

Harry Dean Stanton

SoulIllusion

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

Edward Sapir

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Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

Valerie Harper

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In antihistory, time is an illusion.

Jill Lepore

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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

Jenna Marbles

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A woman should be an illusion.

Ian Fleming

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And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

Mel Gibson

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The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Michael Flanders

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Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Stana Katic

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Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

Robert Fisk

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I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

Rufus Wainwright

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Ludwig Borne

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When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.

Doug Henning

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Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Arthur Erickson

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I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.

Ashley Nell Tipton

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Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

Philip Treacy

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I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

Perry Christie

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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Noam Chomsky

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The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.

Martin Jacques

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It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.

Kim Il-sung

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When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.

James Surowiecki

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The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion.

Henry Spencer

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