Mirrors famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Fresh from a costume fitting, where I had been posing in front of the mirror assuming what I thought was a strong position - arms folded, butch-looking...you know - I met with the woman in charge of Holloway police station. She gave me the most invaluable advice: never let them see you cry, and never cross your arms. When I asked why, she said 'because it is a defensive action and therefore weak.
-- Helen Mirren -
Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .
-- Helen Oyeyemi -
What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.
-- Henning Mankell -
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.
-- Henry Beston -
Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?
-- Henry Cooper -
Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.
-- Henry Louis Gates -
The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman -
I never like to play for myself, and that is why I don't own a grand piano. To play for yourself is like looking at yourself in a mirror. I like to practice; that is to work at a task. But to play there must be an audience. New things happen when you play for an audience. You don't know what will occur. You make discoveries with the music, and it is always the first time. It is an exchange, a communion.
-- Hephzibah Menuhin -
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
-- Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel -
Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
-- Hildegard of Bingen -
Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.
-- Hildegard of Bingen -
Since Im in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?
-- Hill Harper -
There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight
-- Huineng -
I train all the time and the weird thing is I'm in the gym with people between 20 and 25 years old and I look in the mirror and I look better than they do and they are young kids - either they haven't trained hard enough or they aren't serious enough.
-- Hulk Hogan -
Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.
-- Ice Cube -
I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
-- Iggy Pop -
When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me Every freckle on my face is where it’s suppose to be And I know my creator didn’t make no mistakes on me My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I’m loving what I see
-- India.Arie -
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
-- Indra Devi -
My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.
-- Irene Cara -
You have to look in the mirror and see yourself. If it feels good, then I know it's for me. I don't dress to be stared at, I dress for myself.
-- Iris Apfel -
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
-- Isaac Asimov -
Outsiders always look for a reason to explain why they are not inside. They never look in the mirror. Let's face it, the profession I'm in is a very simple and a very cruel one. There is no way that you can create a career for someone without talent and no way to stop a career of someone with talent.
-- Isaac Stern -
If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.
-- Isobelle Carmody -
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
-- Isobelle Carmody -
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves
-- Italo Calvino -
At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.
-- Italo Calvino -
Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.
-- Italo Svevo -
Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.
-- J. Courtney Sullivan -
Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.
-- J.R. Ward -
I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
-- Jack Abbott -
Sometimes you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, 'You are the prettiest princess in all the land.' I do it once a week.
-- Jack Barakat -
There are things we don't do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.
-- Jack Campbell -
Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.
-- Jacob Needleman -
I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.
-- Jacqueline Carey -
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.
-- Jacques Barzun -
All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
-- Jacques Lacan -
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
-- Jacques Lacan -
Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.
-- Jacques Rigaut -
I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith -
I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.
-- Jada Pinkett Smith -
I've always told Will, you can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be OK,
-- Jada Pinkett Smith -
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
-- Jaden Smith -
Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal -
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
-- James A. Baldwin -
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.
-- James Boswell -
Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.
-- James Branch Cabell -
Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.
-- James Elkins -
A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!
-- James Elroy Flecker -
For April Fools Day, someone played a really cruel joke on me. They stole ALL my mirrors and I had to go hours without seeing myself. I mean, I couldn’t even do my daily affirmations. What kind of world is this? I tell you, it’s artists like myself that really suffer.
-- James Franco -
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.
-- James Gleick -
...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.
-- James Hillman -
I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.
-- James Hillman -
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
-- James Joyce -
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: ----Introibo ad altare Dei.
-- James Joyce -
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.
-- James Joyce -
Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.
-- James Lee Burke -
At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.
-- James McGreevey -
If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'
-- James Packer -
I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.
-- Jane Birkin -
For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.
-- Jane Campion -
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
-- Jane Porter -
I pulled into the Grand Union parking lot and drove to the end of the mall where the bank was located. I parked at a safe distance from other cars, exited the BMW, and set the alarm. You want me to stay with the car in case someone's riding around with a bomb in his backseat looking for a place to put it?" Lula asked. Not necessary. Ranger says the car has sensors." Ranger give you a car with bomb sensors? The head of the CIA don't even have a car with bomb sensors. I hear they give him a stick with a mirror on the end of it.
-- Janet Evanovich -
Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered.
-- Janet Evanovich -
Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.
-- Janet McTeer -
My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.
-- Jasmine Guinness -
Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,†I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.
-- Jasper Fforde -
At the Sharper Image store, I saw a body fat analyzer. Didn't that used to be called a mirror?
-- Jay Leno -
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.
-- Jean Cocteau -
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
-- Jean Cocteau -
I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.
-- Jean Kerr -
You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.
-- Jean Rhys -
Syncronistic meetings are like mirrors that reflect something of ourselves. If we want to grow spiritually, all we have to do is take a good look. Synchronicity holds the promise that if we want to change inside, the patterns of our external life will change as well.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen -
Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.
-- Jean-Luc Godard -
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'
-- Jeffrey R. Immelt -
The biggest thing for women to keep in mind is you can't ever let someone define beauty for you. Look in the mirror and say that this is my definition of perfection.
-- Jennie Runk -
True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
-- Jennifer Aniston -
It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought.
-- Jennifer Niven -
As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
-- Jennifer Stone -
In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.
-- Jens Lehmann -
This is a hard job. Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.
-- Jeremy Clarkson -
I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my bike to work when this red Ferrari pulled up next to me. Out of the window, Jeremy Clarkson shouted 'Get a car', and drove off.' What I actually said was, 'Get a car you hatchet faced, leaf-eating tw*t
-- Jeremy Clarkson -
I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.
-- Jerome K. Jerome -
I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.
-- Jerry Reed -
The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face looked exactly the same when I cried as when I laughed. After awhile I couldn't tell which I was doing. Relief was just pain inside out.
-- Jerry Stahl -
Way too high maintenance to be in a relationship with an actor. I don't need a man who spends as much time in front of the mirror as me.
-- Jessica Alba -
If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri -
Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
He didn't see anything." She rolled to her feet. "I was in your bed! We could have scarred him for life!" "Grace, we weren't doing anything. Well, I wasn't. You were snoring." "I don't--" She smoothed her dress down and searched out her sandals, shoving her feet into them. She glanced at herself in the mirror over his dresser and groaned. Hair, wild. Lips, swollen. Face, flushed. Nipples, hard. "Dammit!" She clapped her hands over them. "It's like they're broken!
-- Jill Shalvis -
SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.
-- Jill Tarter
