Grand Illusion Quotes

#1. In my experience, the handoff was the most dangerous part of a deal. If your client decided to pay you in bullets instead of cash, this was where it would go down.

Craig Schaefer

#2. The Grand Illusion, one of the great war films of all time.

Studs Terkel

#3. Sin is a revolt against God.

Billy Graham

#4. Thus the popes, sometimes in zeal for religion, at others moved by their own ambition, were continually calling in new parties and exciting new disturbances.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#5. When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your original-self; a self uncorrupted by the world's false lessons of fear and control.

Bryant H. McGill

#6. For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you." - Cecilia & The Satelite

Andrew McMahon

#7. Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.

Billy Joel

#8. My brother's costume is the exception. He looks like an American. In fact, he behaves like one. When he tried to pick up the first kid he knocked down, he smashed into several others, it snowballed, chaos ensued. My brother very much resembled America today in pretty much all things.

Peter Hedges

#9. If there's one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it's dangerous to believe in anything very much.

Philip Kerr

#10. We have arrived here in this illusory place. Now we just have to figure out how to deal with this grand illusion of our life.

Art Hochberg

#11. 'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

Roger Ebert

#12. A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.

Nancy Kress

#13. In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.'

Terry Teachout

#14. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.

Ovid

#15. You're a brave, brave girl, Tula" Gaby told her.
"I know", said the little girl. "I got it from you.

James Patterson

#16. When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.

Bryant McGill

#17. The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

Lawrence Durrell

#18. The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#19. Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

Ford Frick

#21. If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'

Orson Welles