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Quotes About Illusion

Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. "Tom's gone!" "Is he a magician?" "No." "Then let's print up some flyers!"
~ Mitch Hedberg
The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
~ David Lee Roth
I think animal crackers make people think that all animals taste the same.
~ Mitch Hedberg
When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns.
~ Mitch Hedberg
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
~ Terry Pratchett, Mort
It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.
~ George Carlin
Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.
~ Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
~ Don Roff
I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
The sign on the bar said: 'girls- topless, bottomless', I went inside and there was nobody there!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Went to the corner shop - bought 4 corners.
~ Tommy Cooper
The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.
~ Steven Sample
Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is.
~ Yogi Berra
All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.
~ Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort
You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.
~ Tim Vine
His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.
~ Lisa Lutz
In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.
~ Steven Wright
Because seeing someone's heart ripped out, presumably for the first time, is something a person should accept naturally, like finding out there's no Santa Clause.
~ Katrina Monroe, Reaper
What time is it?""One o'clock."I nearly spit out some soda. "In theafternoon?""No. In the morning. Don't let that damnsunlight fool you. It lies.
~ Glenn Bullion, Demonspawn
The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.
~ Robert B. Parker, Valediction
It's funny when people say something is "unreal" about something that is, in reality, real. I'm so guilty of it, it's real!
~ Ethan Luck
We keep electing council members for appearance sake, it doesn't mean anything, and it is just a show for the people, so that they may sleep well at night with their delusion of peace.
~ S.R. Gibbs, The Inner Kingdom
We were not actually famous, I have to add. People were just drunk.
~ John duover, Rites
Magic. I draw with silver and it turns red.
~ Anonymous