Quotes About Illusion

Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.

People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don't. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks.

Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.

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.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples in themselves.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Success and fame... both are temporary. There today, gone tomorrow.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

When you see someone, all you see is what they let you see.

Don't know. Like I said, she wouldn't say much. He was her Prince Charming." "Sounds more like the toad," Kins said. "That's an insult to toads.

The thing about memories is they're rarely as you remember them.

Tracy had always thought hope to be cruel, a tease that filled people with positive emotions, without any real basis.

Maybe she did. Maybe she's like Houdini.

Houdini untied himself, Faz. That was the trick.

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Wenn das Leben eine Illusion ist, dann bin ich es nicht weniger, und somit ist die Illusion für mich Wirklichkeit.

These fiends can take any form they will. That is, they can, by a magic charm or the like, fling a web of sorcery about their faces, as an actor dons a mask, so that they resemble anyone they wish to.

The moon glimmered evilly through the trees, etching out black shadows and throwing an illusive witch-light over the country.

The belief that affluence can insulate is illusory.