The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing. – Anthony Hopkins
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure. – Barton Gellman
I wish what I do was all real. Some of it’s real, some of it’s an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I’ve got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 – unfortunately it’s not real. – Criss Angel
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending – pretending that might as well be systematic, it’s so thoroughly incentivised by our culture. – Francis Spufford
They’re not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion… they are trying to sell to the others an illusion. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. – George Orwell
Let’s make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years… Dayton isn’t working. Nobody – except diplomats and petty officials – believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords. – Franjo Tudjman
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. – Edward Sapir
The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away. – Duncan Sheik
Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid. – Mark McGwire
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. – Emile M. Cioran
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us. – Daniel Dennett
What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away. – Mario Monti
It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will. – Kim Il-sung
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile. – Joe Henderson
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression. – Joseph Jarman