#delusion

When anybody honks at me in traffic, I blush, wave, and shout, “Thanks for being a fan.” Being a celebrity is a 24/7 thing. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#accessible #blush #blushing #celebrity #delusional

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#greed #illusion #life

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#cheap #delusions #house #live

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#about #ancestry #common #delusion #hatred

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#cause #delusion #effect #fault #simple

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. ↗

— Hart Crane

#between #delusion #exist #explain #form

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#delusion #famous #full #ham #i

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out. ↗

— James Levine

#comes #conductor #deciding #delusion #factor

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else! ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#capacity #developed #else #highly #i

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. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#been #bit #delusions #dies #down