225 Illusion Quotes for You to Enjoy

A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else. Jurgen Moltmann

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New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere. Kat Edmonson

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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start. Larry McMurtry

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I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got. Leon Russell

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I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices. Lewis Capaldi

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Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion. Lionel Shriver

Experience Illusion Will Our Volition Perhaps Scientists Discover Clockwork Eventually

It's nice to sort of walk in and at least create the illusion that you are, or your character is, a well-rounded human being, a complete person. Especially when you're playing these impressive, high-functioning professionals. You feel like you have to come in sort of guns blazing. Luke Roberts

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In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive. Mario Vargas Llosa

Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it. Martin Jacques

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I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to. Max Greenfield

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What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. Max Jacob

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The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again! Michael Flanders

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With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire. Mickalene Thomas

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In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect. Nicole Krauss

I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion. Pankaj Tripathi

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I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power. Parker Palmer

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Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people. Paul Park

You People Illusion Reading Depend About Real Real People

It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does. Peter Jackson

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. Philip Treacy

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