Mirrors famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
-- Dan Chaon -
Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.
-- Daniel Libeskind -
I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.
-- Dante Alighieri -
We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.
-- Daphne Guinness -
Our sport is in a changing of the guard right now. It happens every 10 or 15 years, and Brad is the leader of that change at the moment. Sometimes his words and outspokenness offend some folks, but he doesn’t back down from his comments. He doesn’t back down in his driving either, and when competitors see him coming in the rearview mirror, they have to be wondering what he’ll do and what he’s thinking. I think fans love that and gravitate to drivers like Brad.
-- Darrell Waltrip -
I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.
-- Darren Criss -
Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.
-- Darren Johnson -
Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.
-- Darryl Anka -
When I look in the mirror, I look at the enemy. There is no one to blame for this but myself. I should have bought myself a mirror a long time ago.
-- Darryl Strawberry -
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.
-- Dave Matthews -
I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!
-- Dave Sitek -
Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.
-- David Alan Grier -
Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.
-- David Alan Harvey -
For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence, and so to see it pervaded by a numinous glory, is to see things as they truly are, and to recognize creation as the mirror of God's infinite beauty.
-- David Bentley -
Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.
-- David Brin -
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.
-- David Chipperfield -
Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.
-- David Clement-Davies -
However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.
-- David First -
When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?
-- David Icke -
You don't comb the mirror, you comb your own hair and the mirror changes.
-- David Icke -
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
-- David Knopfler -
Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.
-- David Krumholtz -
Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.
-- David L. Katz -
The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.
-- David Lanz -
The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.
-- David Lee -
Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of destruction are exempted. It is an inchoate and emotionally laden concept, a semantic mirror of our dishonesty and a repository for everything about war that we would like to disavow. Making a sharp distinction between war and terrorism is at best a self-deceptive game.
-- David Livingstone -
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.
-- David Mitchell -
Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?
-- David Schwimmer -
Life is a mirror that magnifies. What we see 'out there' is only a duplication of what we are inside.
-- David Wolfe -
Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.
-- David Wolpe -
The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
-- Dean Acheson -
Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.
-- Dean Karnazes -
The world mirrors yourself back to you. If you love, nourish, and appreciate yourself internally it will show up in your external life. If you want more love, give more love to yourself. If you want acceptance, accept yourself.
-- Debbie Ford -
When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.
-- Debbie Ford -
Look in the mirror and see who you are. Beautiful, you are.
-- Deborah Cox -
Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.
-- Debra Evans -
An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.
-- Debra Winger -
The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others.
-- Deepak Chopra -
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.
-- Deepak Chopra -
The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.
-- Deepak Chopra -
It helps to even look in the mirror - and it sounds so cheesy - but if you just look in the mirror and say, 'You are beautiful,' and 'You are worthy,' those things really help you.
-- Demi Lovato -
When I was four years old, I remember looking in the mirror and running my fingers over my stomach and thinking I was fat.
-- Demi Lovato -
The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.
-- Denis Waitley -
Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.
-- Denis Waitley -
I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.
-- Dennis Farina -
Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
-- Derek Luke -
Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
-- Derek Walcott -
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.
-- Derek Walcott -
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
-- Derek Walcott -
Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
-- Derek Walcott -
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey. ... Prey, on the other hand, have eyes at the sides of their heads, because what they really need is peripheral vision, so they can tell when something is sneaking up behind them. Something like us.
-- Diane Ackerman -
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
-- Diane Ackerman -
Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.
-- Dieter F. Uchtdorf -
Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
-- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau -
I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.
-- Dino De Laurentiis -
That meek darkness be thy mirror, and thy whole remembrance.
-- Dionysius of Halicarnassus -
It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'
-- Donald Driver -
When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.
-- Donald Dunn -
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.
-- Donald Woods Winnicott -
I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.
-- Donalyn Miller -
The more mirror-minded you become, the more your home will reflect shining charm!
-- Dorothy Draper -
It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of a woman getting ready to go somewhere. Can you tell me that greasing your body up and posing in front of a mirror is masculine? A bodybuilder puts strength secondary to his physique, whereas the lifter puts strength foremost because it is more masculine to do so.
-- Doug Hepburn -
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
-- Douglas Adams -
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
-- Dudley Moore -
I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.
-- Duncan Keith -
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
-- E. M. Forster -
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.
-- Earl Nightingale -
In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.
-- Edgar Lee Masters -
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.
-- Edgar Lee Masters -
The mind sees the world as a thing apart,   And the soul makes the world at one with itself.   A mirror scratched reflects no image—   And this is the silence of wisdom.
-- Edgar Lee Masters -
In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror;Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth,And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest,And you shall know that guest,And read the authentic message of his eyes.
-- Edgar Lee Masters -
The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
-- Edith Hamilton -
I have a luck cat in my arms, it spins threads of luck. Luck cat, luck cat, make for me three things: make for me a golden ring, to tell me that I am lucky; make for me a mirror to tell me that I am beautiful; make for me a fan to waft away my cumbersome thoughts. Luck cat, luck cat, spin for me some news of my future!
-- Edith Södergran -
There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.
-- Edith Wharton -
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
-- Edmund Muskie -
To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.
-- Edward Norton -
I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.
-- Elaine Dundy -
Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.
-- Eli Pariser -
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.
-- Elif Safak -
After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.
-- Elisabeth Shue -
I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.
-- Elisha Cuthbert -
We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once with firmness Could grasp the axe and blade, Now move with trembling motion, By strength of nerve decayed. The change in form and feature And furrows on the cheek Of Time's increasing volume, In plain, round numbers speak. And thus, as in a mirror's Reflection, we were told, With stereotyped impressions, The fact of growing old.
-- Eliza R. Snow -
The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him.
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
-- Elizabeth Fishel -
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.
-- Elizabeth Fishel -
A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.
-- Elizabeth Prettejohn -
Where are you off to in such a hurry?†His stunning green eyes bore through me. “A corpse convention?†Even sweaty, Trevor was gorgeous. “What are you running away from?†I retorted. “Your mirror?
-- Ellen Schreiber -
I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly to impress others. Did they really see themselves in the mirror? Was it what they wanted to see? Did it make them feel good or bad? And mostly I wondered if they based their self-image on their reflected one.
-- Ellen Schreiber -
When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
-- Emile Durkheim -
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. ––The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white'.
-- Eminem -
I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like
-- Eminem
