Illusions Quotes

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

I'm an idealist without illusions.