Sasha Lane Quotes

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.

It's always been the same from a long time ago, it's people with promises and people dangling carrots and when you're young and impressionable, and ambitious, you want to believe them. I was always lucky because there was always part of me that didn't believe these people.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.