#illusion

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#blow #everyone #hate #i #illusions

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

— Sydney Smith

#archbishop #canterbury #i #illusion #left

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#celebration #contain #even #fact #illusion

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#always #benefit #having #i #illusion

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#illusion #like #limits #often

Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#between #busy #creating #day #every

Friendship has its illusions no less than love. ↗

— Stendhal

#illusions #less #love #than

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour. ↗

— J.M. Bernstein

#culture #illusion #industry #art

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#illusions #courage

That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#fish #illusions #magic #beauty