4th Dimension Bookshelf

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

The height of cleverness is to conceal it. - Duc de la Rochefoucauld

It is not the length of life, but the depth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

My husband said he needed more space. So I locked him outside. - Roseanne Barr

With the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. - Job 12:1

Laughter crosses boundaries of class and age. Humour is universal. - Jeremy Lloyd

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein

A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it. - Unknown

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. - Mark Twain

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

If someone tells you, 'You can't', they're showing you their limits. Not yours! - Dwayne Johnson

Just be yourself, and hopefully they can shape an epic space adventure around exactly who you are. - Chris Pratt

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou

The impossible is only relevant to those who never attempt it, otherwise it is abstract and meaningless. - John Paul Warren

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world - an assigned parking space. - Gene Perret

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. - John S Mill

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. - Henry Ford

Be ruthless about your calendar - stick to it, hell or high water but create space for unstructured time as well. - Arjun Arora

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash. - Jay McInerney

The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe. - Mae Jemison

You have to be cool under pressure. You have to be a strategist like chess, and you have to use geometry like billiards. - Bill McBride

In most homes, the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. - Evan Esar

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. - John Glenn

The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies. - Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I've been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. - Jenny Holzer

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. - Viktor Frankl