Smoke And Mirrors Quotes

“Let us drop our 'tin ear' and listen to the sounds of the 'real' world veiled beyond our inattention, and overwhelmed by the smoke and mirrors of superficiality. ("Like a frozen image")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“People named Tinkerbell name their daughters Susan.”
― Neil Gaiman, Murder Mysteries

“It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad; I found this far more disquieting than the alternative.”
― Neil Gaiman, Murder Mysteries

“Everyday I realize more and more that if the world is going to change at all, it is going to change through the healing of the victims. Abusers run the show, they insist on and instigate cover ups, they misuse their power, teach things falsely out of the desire to control but as the victims heal and get stronger, the abusers will not be able to hide behind the fog that they create.”
― Darlene Ouimet

“She tasted the day he lost his first job. She tasted the morning he had awakened, still drunk, in his car, in the middle of a cornfield, and, terrified, had sworn off the bottle for ever. She knee his real name. She remembered the name that had once been tattooed on his arm and knew why it could be there no longer. She tasted the color of his eyes from the inside, and shivered at the nightmare he had in which he was forced to carry spiny fish in his mouth, and from which he woke, choking, night after night. She savored the hungers in food and fiction, and discovered a dark sky when he was a small boy and he had stared up at the stars and wondered at their vastness and immensity, that even he had forgotten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers

“What simple and
ordinary lives we live,
underneath the shadows
of projection screen
artists”
― Volatalistic Phil, White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

“The German astronomer Johannes Kepler coined the term “camera obscura” in the early seventeenth century, but by then the phenomenon had been known for millennia; in fact, it is perhaps the oldest known optical illusion. Some form of camera obscura was most likely behind a popular illusion performed in ancient Greece and Rome, in which spectral images were cast upon the smoke of burning incense by performers using concave metal mirrors—hence the expression “smoke and mirrors.”
― Jennifer Ouellette

“Is our closeness all smoke and mirrors,
Just a figment in my mind?
Do you know what all your in for
With a love like mine?
I can show you what lies ahead
If we leave our lives behind”
― Eric Overby, Senses

“When we penetrate the smokescreen of controversies regarding false accusations, ‘recovered memories’, ‘recanters’, references to ‘satanic ritual abuse’ and the incorporation of elements of cultural myths into some accounts, we are left with the reality that in the vast majority of cases it is not the over-reporting or exaggeration of trauma that is the principal problem. Rather it is society’s unwillingness to know, the perpetrators’ strongly motivated efforts to hide their criminal acts, and the relative ease they are often afforded by societal institutions and practices in doing so. - The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Viewpoint)”
― Warwick Middleton

“This protest spoke to me—the humanist principles felt connected to the minimalist essence of long-distance hiking, the desire to transcend the smoke and mirrors of our country’s established society, revealing what remains in all its splendor: the magnificent, resilient human soul.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“We’re actually happy with things just as they are. Conquering more land would just mean the seven families would be at each other’s throats over how to divide up the spoils. We don’t want to conquer the world, we just want the world to think we want to conquer them so they don’t try and conquer us.”
― Nelson Chereta, The (sort of) Dark Mage

“Smoking: The most stylish way to cancer”
― Jitendra Attra

“Without the sensuality if the heart and soul, there is no sensuality. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.”
― Lebo Grand

“Without the sensuality of the heart and soul, there is no sensuality at all, just smoke and mirrors.”
― Lebo Grand

“Take my soul, my heart, and body. Yes, I give it all to you. And if you still won’t accept it, you're gonna regret it!”
― Little Jayney Cakes

“It seems that
people struggle with
up-front honesty.

They want veils
and lies.

I was born
inside out - my heart sewn
to
my sleeve.

Exposed, up-front and in your face.”
― Vanessa de Largie, Don't Hit Me!

“Theists pretend that their inferences are akin to “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” But they’re actual more like “where there’s smoke, there’s a dragon. And it’s using the plooms to talk to me.”
― @serpentinious7745