Quotes About Illusion

any improvement not made at the constraint is just an illusion, yes?

Gilda, you're talking like this is a fairy tale, and you're going to meet Prince Charming, and everything's going to be all right, and we'll both live happily ever after." "So what's wrong with that?

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

Any details on the mask?" "I think people are usually too busy looking at the black leather cat-suit.

A lake being calm doesn't mean that crocodiles are hungry neither.

Part of jazz is the illusion of spontaneity and Monk played the piano as though he'd never seen one before.

but dreams on paper are never as good as the real thing.

You see what you want to see

There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory, write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose and gold will be smelt from your terror

Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,And yet he semed bisier than he was.

Geoffrey Chaucer

people can die of mere imagination

Can't I just say it's magic? - Charlie Blue

I say "illusion" of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.

Je le voie, mais je ne le crois pas.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is unlikely to look out.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

It is the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician. If the illusion fails the ballet fails, no matter how well a program note tells the audience that it has succeeded.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.