Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Junior has no illusions that he's 25, but he'll go at it and work hard. If everything is working out, he'll play.

I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.

Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.

Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion.

Elbert Hubbard

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Elbert Hubbard

Time is an illusion-to orators.

Albert Einstein

Time is an illusion.

Sydney Smith

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Alexander Pushkin

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

David Cronenberg

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

The only thing you will ever possess is yourself, and that only briefly, if at all.

Mel Gibson

I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.

Mike Bennett

I would like to see someone come in second that tells it like it is. I don't have any illusions that he'll come in first, but I do think it might be nice.

Atal Vajpayee

Pakistan couldn't take Kashmir through wars. There should be no illusion that it could get it through supporting terrorism

Daniel Dennett

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

David Copperfield

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

Curtis Hanson

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

Dallas Willard

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

Chuck Jones

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Elie Wiesel

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Aprilynne Pike

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Ashley Olsen

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

Alan Watts

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

I'm not having any illusions that it will be a piece of cake.

Italo Calvino

The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.

Jorge Amado

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

David Sanborn

But I never had any illusions at that time that it was going to be how I was going to make a living. I thought, well, I'll make a solo record, and it'll be fun.

Hillary Clinton

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.