Smoke And Mirrors Quotes:

All I am is smoke and mirrors ...

- Tuomas Holopainen

topic: Mirrors, Smoke And Mirrors

All I am is smoke and mirrors.

- Tuomas Holopainen

topic: Mirrors, Smoke And Mirrors, Smoke

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.

- Chris Brown

topic: Dream, Fun, Thinking, Pinching, Smoke And Mirrors

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

- Julie Burchill

topic: Mirrors, Perfect, Sap, Perfect Beauty, Smoke And Mirrors

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

- Noel Gallagher

topic: Mirrors, Honest, Intention, Brutally Honest, Smoke And Mirrors

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

- Bruno Mars

topic: Mirrors, Guy, Raw Talent, Smoke And Mirrors

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

- Juice Newton

topic: Mirrors, Typical, Bells, Smoke And Mirrors

Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception.

- Chris Hedges

topic: Mirrors, Media, Games, Stagecraft, Captivated

When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo.

- Tim Finn

topic: Ocean, Healing, Passion, Marking Time, Limbo

I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Writing, Tired, Mirrors, Live And Love, Smoke And Mirrors

The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors.

- Edward Tenner

topic: Mean, Mirrors, Dimensions, Multimedia, Smoke And Mirrors

Here in the United States, we're consumed by our love of money and status. We think bigger is better, and if we can just get that promotion, all will be well with our souls. There's one fatal flaw to this mindset: it's all smoke and mirrors.

- Jen Lilley

source: "Count Your Blessings and Watch them Multiply" by Jen Lilley, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Thinking, Mirrors, Soul, Consumed, Fatal Flaws

All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

- Jimmy Breslin

source: How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer (1975). Usually quoted as "smoke and mirrors."

topic: Beautiful, Clouds, Mirrors, Smoke And Mirrors, Rolling Over

I'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken way, or you flop notes at the right time and you don't have to play stuff that would take seven years to learn.

- Zach Condon

source: "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

topic: Player, Mirrors, Years, Vibrate, Smoke And Mirrors

Ultimately, we’re not the avatars we create. We’re not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.

- Jim Carrey

source: Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014..

topic: Smoke And Mirrors

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.

- Charlize Theron

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Thinking, Mirrors, Angle, Smoke And Mirrors

This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Hard Work, Mirrors, Self, Sabotage, Smoke And Mirrors

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Book, Reading, Hero, Smoke And Mirrors

My only challenge is to entertain. And I accomplish my task better when I myself am entertained by what I am doing. I am very critical of myself, I constantly set the bar higher and higher. I try to surpass myself. That`s all. But I also know how to preserve myself, to not let myself get bedazzled by the smoke and mirrors.

- Val Kilmer

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mirrors, Challenges, Trying, Smoke And Mirrors

And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.

- Ted Nugent

topic: Believe, Hero, Media, Certificates, Sheriffs

She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art glass-- strong enough to handle and use, delicate enough to shatter under a strong blow, and filled with swirls of color that fascinated the eye. But while most people--and most glass--allowed light through, she could discern nothing of Devlin's heart and soul through the smoke and mirrors he held before him.

- Christina Dodd

topic: Art, Strong, Eye, Inner Feelings, Swirls

How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they did not fit with a preconceived system of eschatology? Russell's Parousia takes the Bible seriously when it tells us of the nearness of Christ's return. Those who claim to interpret the Bible literally, trip over the obvious meaning of these time texts by making Scripture mean the opposite of what it unequivocally declares. Reading Russell is a breath of fresh air in a room filled with smoke and mirror hermeneutics.

- Gary DeMar

topic: Jesus, Reading, Mean, Eschatology, Hermeneutics

I don't dabble in politics too much. I'm really ignorant to the world of politics. I'm not that smart, I'm not that cunning, it's just too much smoke and mirrors for me. I just don't want to play that game.

- Michael K. Williams

topic: Smart, Games, Play, Smoke And Mirrors