Quotes tagged ‘Illusion’

(45 total)

“Everything you have seen here has been an illusion.”

— Neil Burger, Eisenheim, Edward Norton, imdb.com

“I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.”

“You’re not going to know what’s real and what’s fake.”

— Mark Perez, Brooks Davis, Kyle Chandler, imdb.com

“John Hammond: When we have control again.. Dr. Ellie Sattler: You never had control, that's the illusion! I was overwhelmed by the power of this place. But I made a mistake, too, I didn't have enough respect for that power and it's out now. The only thing that matters now are the people we love. Ala…”

— Michael Crichton, David Koepp, John Hammond, Richard Attenborough, imdb.com

“Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, The Merovingian, Lambert Wilson, imdb.com

“Raffi: Your children don't have to come from you. They go through you. So, I wouldn't consider the battle with time over just yet. Claire: I thought time wasn't linear. I thought it was an illusion. Raffi: Maybe that was just bullshit, Claire. Maybe that was just acting. [walks away]”

— Allan Loeb, Raffi, Jacob Latimore, imdb.com

“Claire: What was that thing you said about Einstein in there? Raffi: Einstein called time a stubbornly persistent illusion. Claire: What's that even mean? Raffi: Time doesn't go from January to December, or from noon to midnight. You know we all just make it that way in our heads. Claire: That's abs…”

— Allan Loeb, Claire Wilson, Kate Winslet, imdb.com

“Peace is an illusion. And no matter how tranquil the world seems, peace doesn’t last long. Peace is a struggle against our very nature. A skin we stretch over the bone, muscle, and sinew of our own innate savagery.”

— Steve Blackman, Takeshi Kovacs, Joel Kinnaman, imdb.com

“The best magic tricks have the simplest solutions.”

— Cortney Norris, Anderson MacKenzie, Rip Hunter, Arthur Darvill, imdb.com

“My dad once told me that life is a trick done with mirrors. You look at something from one direction, it looks like one thing; you turn it over, it looks like something else. I guess he was right. Sometimes it's hard to tell who's a real friend, and who's just an illusion in glass.”

— J. Rickley Dumm, imdb.com

“There is no such thing as magic, just illusion. Things only change when we change them. But you have to do it skillfully, in secret. Then it seems like magic.”

— Jantje Friese, Martin Behnke, Mikkel Nielsen, Daan Lennard Liebrenz, imdb.com

“We trust that time is linear. That it proceeds eternally, uniformly. Into infinity. But the distinction between past, present and future is nothing but an illusion. Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.”

— Jantje Friese, The Stranger, Andreas Pietschmann, imdb.com

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

— Richard Dawkins, amazon.com

“The exact Rainbow any of us sees in the sky is entirely our own -- a personal, yet communal gift from the laws of optics.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

“People don’t really want to be free. Besides, it’s an illusion. I mean, you take my birds, they just love flying free, but every night they fly on home to their cages where it’s safe and warm.”

— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Waldo, Stephen Lang, imdb.com

“Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid eac…”

— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com

“Life is unpredictable and control is just an illusion. And it makes us feel small and powerless.”

— Elizabeth Benjamin, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com

“An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.”

— Erich Fromm, amazon.com

“The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.”

— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com