Mirrors famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.
-- Bill Maher -
I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.
-- Bill Withers -
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
-- Billy Gibbons -
Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
-- Billy Sunday -
I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.
-- Bob Stoops -
For anyone who has ever stood before a bathroom mirror and secretly thanked The Academy, a hilarious guide to becoming 'It' in an age where the line between fame and infamy is as fine as a Manolo Blahnik stiletto heel.
-- Bonnie Fuller -
If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope
-- Boonaa Mohammed -
Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.
-- Brian Clough -
The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
-- Brian Molko -
The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships-especially with your children and spouse-simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing
-- Brian Tracy -
I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
-- Brooke Shields -
It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
-- Bruce Babbitt -
The deep hurt is the mirror image of the deep joy that still awaits you.
-- Bruce C. Hafen -
Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.
-- Bruce Lee -
Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
-- Bruce Lee -
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
-- Bruce Lee -
Zen is not “attained†by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.†We do not “comeâ€, we “are.†Don't strive to become, but be.
-- Bruce Lee -
Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
-- Bruce Lee -
Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.
-- Bruce Lee -
Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
-- Bruce Sterling -
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 -
The horse is a mirror to your soul... and sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror.
-- Buck Brannaman -
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
-- Byron Katie -
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.
-- Byron Katie -
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.
-- C. S. Lewis -
It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.
-- Caitlin Moran -
Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other...
-- Canibus -
I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.
-- Carey Mulligan -
As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.
-- Carol Vorderman -
Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.
-- Carolyn Kizer -
The thing about the Mirror is that no one knows where it is. In fact, no one knows what it is.†"It’s a mirror,†Simon said. “You know – reflective, glass. I’m just assuming.
-- Cassandra Clare -
I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.
-- Cat Deeley -
You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.
-- Catherine DeVrye -
Makeup is such a weird concept. I'll wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. 'Gee, I really don't look so good. Maybe if my eyelids were blue, I'd be more attractive.
-- Cathy Ladman -
I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.
-- Cesar Millan -
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
-- Cesare Pavese -
I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.
-- Channing Tatum -
The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.
-- Channing Tatum -
Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror. "Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.
-- Charles A. Beard -
Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
-- Charles de Lint -
The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.
-- Charles de Lint -
Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well. When we do work in the world, internal issues arise that we must face or be rendered ineffective.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
We literally are all made out of stardust. We started from those stars; we are made of stardust. So, next time you are really depressed, look in the mirror and you can look and say, 'Hi, I'm looking at a star here.'
-- Charles Elachi -
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
-- Charles Francis Richter -
Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within; To find where you are going, First see where you have been.
-- Charles Ghigna -
The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.
-- Charles Simic -
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when you’re not looking, it’s there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, it’s the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, it’s not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you don’t get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice.
-- Charles Yu -
Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I'm not even particularly good at being myself.
-- Charles Yu -
The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
Shut your evil mucus-hole you truth terrorist. You LOSE every time a mirror implodes from your barbed and gristle image.
-- Charlie Sheen -
I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.
-- Cher -
Success is like a mirror: It reflects back to you exactly what you held up before it.
-- Cherie Carter-Scott -
Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
-- Cherie Carter-Scott -
10 Rules for Being Human: Rule #1 - You will receive a body. Rule #2 - You will be presented with lessons. Rule #3 - There are no mistakes, only lessons. Rule #4 - The lesson is repeated until learned. Rule #5 - Learning does not end. Rule #6 - "There" is no better than "here". Rule #7 - Others are only mirrors of you. Rule #8 - What you make of your life is up to you. Rule #9 - Your answers lie inside of you. Rule #10 - You will forget all this at birth.
-- Cherie Carter-Scott -
After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.
-- Cherie Currie -
I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.
-- Cherie Lunghi -
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 -
As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.
-- Chris Sarandon -
That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel -
Shoes are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you're missing
-- Christian Louboutin -
When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.
-- Christian Louboutin -
I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.' Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, Oh, I look like a woman. And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it.
-- Christina Hendricks -
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
-- Christopher Lasch -
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
-- Chuck Close -
The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.
-- Cindy Sherman -
If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.
-- Clare Balding -
Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.
-- Clare of Assisi -
I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
-- Claude Chabrol -
I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face....
-- Claudia Schiffer -
When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.
-- Claudio Reyna -
I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.
-- Clemence Poesy -
And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.
-- Cleo Moore -
I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.
-- Clive Owen -
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
-- Coco Chanel -
Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
-- Colin Firth -
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
-- Colin Powell -
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.
-- Colm Toibin -
we live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many digital recordings of Beethoven's Ninth, too many choices of rearview mirrors on the latest Renault. Sometimes you say to yourself: It's too much, it's all too much.
-- Corinne Maier -
They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky.
-- Cornel Wilde -
We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.
-- Craig Groeschel -
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
-- Criss Jami -
I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.
-- Dafydd ap Gwilym -
Before taking the stage, Paul Ryan spent 6 hours staring into a mirror working on 'concerned eyebrow.'
-- Damien Fahey -
We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?
-- Damon Lindelof
