Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Flynn

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.

Bill Moyers

The delusional is no longer marginal.

It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

One of his delusions drove him to testify, If I can just get up and talk to the American people, I will be set free.

One who neither hates the presence of enlightenment, activity, and delusion nor desires for them when they are absent.

Because of the way you were acting. I didn't need his evidence. I saw your delusions myself.

Jack Black

Never for a second did I think of myself as the sexiest guy in the world. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

Steven Millhauser

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

Chuck Palahniuk

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

His symptoms will go into remission sufficiently enough to stand trial. There is a high likelihood that he will regain competency. His interest and his interpersonal functioning has been improving. (But) his delusional thoughts have continued.

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

Oliver Goldsmith

I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy.

Ludwig Borne

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Eric S. Raymond

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

John Adams

These bickerings of opposite parties, and their mutual reproaches their declamations, their sing-song, their triumphs and defiance, their dismal and prophecies, are all delusion

Do not be under the delusion that God is somewhere and you have to search for Him; God is in you.

Rick Mercer

If the United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

Intel woke up from its frequency delusion and is now going full-bore on dual-core.

Rabih Alameddine

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

IT is urgent that every one should inquire into the true, the pure and the permanent; for there is at present a delusion about values. Even the leaders of people are hugging the false hypothesis that happiness can be had by means of wealth or health, housing or clothing, or the cultivation of skills in handicraft and manufacture.

Tim McGraw

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

Lady Gaga

I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person.

John Gallagher

I have no delusions that all of a sudden he's going to go away.

Tony Robbins

I don't have the delusion that I'm the best or have the right answer. Whenever someone is out there pissed at you or me, they don't even know you or I. What they are really pissed at is themselves. You might have total respect for them but they don't respect themselves.