#illusion

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#air travel #between #death #exhilarating #fact

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#comforting #illusion #live #world

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

— Stephen Colbert

#blow #everyone #hate #i #illusions

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

— John Langdon

#design #illusions #interwoven #into #language

In the fire of his embrace, all that was her ceased to exist. Only what was God remained. I am. The cloisterbell, the voice of Christ. He spoke again: I am. She tried to obey but was frozen in beauty, like a fly trapped in amber. She could not move. Nothing exists apart from me. Self had been an illusion, a dream. God dreaming. ↗

— Mark Salzman

#self-is-an-illusion #the-voice-of-god #beauty

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again. ↗

— John Lennon

#again #artists #cannot #created #critics

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#corner #day #down #eye #her

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#buy #cars #common #crucial #great

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

— Alexander McQueen

#focused #i #illusions #look #mind

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#big #big shot #coming #experience #faith