#illusions

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

— Stephen Colbert

#blow #everyone #hate #i #illusions

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead. ↗

— David Copperfield

#dead #dreams #go #illusions #let go

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#heart #illusions #therefore #thy #trust

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

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#appears #belief #dangerous #decisive #human

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#build #bunch #fall #i #idea

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

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. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#creating #focus #focus groups #greater #groups

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. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#bottle #doing #eat #food #friends