Illusion Quotes:
Let’s be under no illusions: There are attacks on, for example, transgender Americans from the Oval Office, picking on troops – people willing to lay down their lives for this country – not to mention teenagers in our high schools. So we’ve got to end the war on trans Americans.
Pete Buttigieg
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
I’m an idealist without illusions.
John F. Kennedy
I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Bob Dylan
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Wilson Lynd
I’m under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.
Jorge Amado
Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That’s how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.
Renee O’Connor
At the end of ‘Illusions,’ readers should see the inevitable coming.
Aprilynne Pike
I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is… and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I’ve had good opportunities in life, and I believe there’s an obligation to give something back by participating.
Pat Meehan
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
Ralph Thomas Walker
There’s a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There’s a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music’s sake.
Bill Conti
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
John Langdon
My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
Sam Robards
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
Giotto di Bondone
I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don’t have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.
Tobey Maguire
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Elizabeth Bowen
It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.
Emile Durkheim
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
My friends kidded me about going so far on such modest talent. I always agreed with them. I had no illusions about my films, nor did I consider myself anything special as an actor or a singer.
Gene Autry
Don’t get me wrong, I’m under no illusions, I’ve got a very old-school, mainstream leaning to the way I present my comedy because I actually like jokes and don’t just do observational stuff.
Lee Mack
I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right – we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That’s attractive to me.
Marjane Satrapi
My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no illusions whatsoever about how Uncle Sam had mistreated him and other black soldiers.
John Edgar Wideman
Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it’s all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
Jeff Bridges
I formulated the theme behind ‘The Grand Illusion’ album after observing how American culture creates illusions through advertising and entertainment to convince us that our lives our lacking, in order to sell products.
Dennis DeYoung
Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
Tariq Ramadan
The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
Tariq Ramadan
Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own. Loose talk about resurrecting a multi-polar world is just that – loose talk.
Richard N. Haass
Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.
Howard Rheingold
I’m really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
David Copperfield
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
David Copperfield
Dreams are illusions, and we can’t let go of them because we would be dead.
David Copperfield
Back when I was single and Guns were on the ‘Illusions’ tour, chicks were, like, left and right. They were falling over themselves. And I saw the sadness in that. The first six months of that, it’s like, ‘Killer! Chicks are hot. They’re into me.’ And then you realize they’re not really into you. They’re into the guy they saw on the JumboTron.
Duff McKagan
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It’s one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn’t live without.
Howard Nemerov
Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we’ve ‘discovered’ something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I’m not trying to prove anything – I just want to have kids.
Jane Pauley
My work is not great, but it’s respectable. I have no false illusions.
Maurice Sendak
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.
Daniel Gilbert
Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru status to dull business people. It fits in with capitalism’s anti-mythic myth: the idea that we have liberated ourselves from the dangerous illusions allegedly propagated by art and politics.
Mark Fisher
I’d always wanted to do these types of things – pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
David Blaine
What I immediately recognized about Wall Street in 1983 was that it was a continuation of my career in theater. Wall Street is a big theater, and it’s all illusions.
Max Keiser
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
Martin Seligman
About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I’m good at. I know what I ain’t. I’m always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that’s the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.
Keith Richards
I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
Stephen Fry
Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.
Francis Ford Coppola
I was fascinated with optical illusions.
Temple Grandin