#illusion

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. ↗

— Artur Davis

#america #celebrity #confuse #executive #experienced

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ↗

— Mark Twain

#exist #gone #illusions #live #may

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#birth #daughter #done #existing #gave

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

#feeling #illusions #live #person

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing. ↗

— James Broughton

#being #die #everything #free #good

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#dreams

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition. ↗

— Dan Flavin

#broken #composition #could #crucial #down

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion. ↗

— David Copperfield

#every #i #illusion #key #know

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions. ↗

— David Copperfield

#anything #been #before #challenges #done

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. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#actor #any #apart #beauty #because