Quotes About Illusion

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

Nothing is ever too good to be true.

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job of hiding reality!

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.