Identity Theft

My favorite animal is steak. - Fran Lebowitz

We hold these semi-animal meetings. - Archie Bunker

Can vegetarians eat animal crackers? - George Carlin

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Having an animal in your life makes you a better human. - Rachel Ray

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

Contempt for animal life leads to contempt for human life. - Edward Abbey

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

Mouse: An animal which strews its path with fainting women. - Ambrose Bierce

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all. - Cleveland Amory

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. - Jonathan S Foer

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? - George Carlin

There's a good animal show on with that kindly old gent, Marlons Perkos. - Archie Bunker

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights. - Laura Mennell

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. - Marshall McLuhan

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it. - Groucho Marx

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

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen. - Quvenzhane Wallis

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

The fire of the diamond of true identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it. - Kenneth G Mills

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. - Mark Twain

There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature. - Danny Meyer

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox. - Francois Truffaut

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Oscar Wilde

A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self. - Marian Sandmaier

Ugly animals have it rough. We're more likely to eat them or let them go extinct, and less likely to adopt them from animal shelters. - Joshua A Krisch

I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up. - Marco Beltrami