Mirrors famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
-- Jim Bishop -
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.
-- Jim C. Hines -
I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.
-- Jim Carrey -
I heard last year at [insert name]'s birthday party they had to set up mirrors to make it look like a crowd.
-- Jim Cornette -
When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
-- Jim Hodges -
I've been dreaming of mirrors. Millions of mirrors, reflecting people to death.
-- Jim Steinman -
If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.
-- Jim Steinman -
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
-- Jimi Hendrix -
All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.
-- Jimmy Breslin -
I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating the self — our achievements, our experiences, our existence. Imagine what it would be like to look into the mirror and say, as God taught us, "That's good.
-- Joan D. Chittister -
I'm almost reluctant to say it because it sounds superficial, but when you lose your hair, it just affects the way that you look at yourself in the mirror. You feel less feminine, pretty or desirable, and it's not an easy thing to go through.
-- Joan Lunden -
My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.
-- Joan Mitchell -
I find it a great antidote lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
-- Joanna Lumley -
As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away.
-- Joanne Froggatt -
I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.
-- Jody Watley -
The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.
-- Joe Abercrombie -
The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.
-- Joe Hill -
When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.
-- Joe Montana -
Your future starts today. Don’t go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility.
-- Joel Osteen -
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter
-- Johann Georg Hamann -
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
To love someone is to acknowledge the goodness of who they are. Through loving a person we awaken their awareness of their own innate goodness. It is as though they cannot know how worthy they are until they look into the mirror of our love and see themselves.
-- John Gray -
The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors....
-- John B. Anderson -
You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,†thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
-- John Berger -
Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.
-- John Burnham Schwartz -
I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.
-- John Candy -
He had never really speculated about this before, since demons came in all shapes and sizes. Indeed, some of them came in more than one shape or size all by themselves, such as O'Dear, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Overweight, and his twin, O'Really, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Slim When They're Not.
-- John Connolly -
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.
-- John Dos Passos -
If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.
-- John Havlicek -
Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.
-- John Lydon -
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
-- John Mason Brown -
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.
-- John Muir -
Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?
-- John Paul Caponigro -
In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.
-- John Scott -
I think art, at best, holds up a mirror to humanity.
-- John Spencer -
Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards.
-- John Sullivan Dwight -
Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
-- John Updike -
When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti ˛ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys
-- John Updike -
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
-- John Updike -
People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.
-- Johnny Damon -
Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up.
-- Johnny Depp -
If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.
-- Johnny Depp -
I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
-- Jon Bon Jovi -
One of the reasons I got into fighting was because I'd never really been in a fight. It's like in Fight Club, the famous line, 'How much can you really know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?'... It's the the clearest mirror you'll ever stand in front of.
-- Jon Fitch -
Look in the mirror. You must first love yourself before you can receive true love from someone else.
-- Jon Jones -
One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.
-- Jonathan Brandis -
If you want to see the greatest threat to your financial future, go home and take a look in the mirror.
-- Jonathan Clements -
You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.
-- Jonathan Evison -
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.
-- Jonathan Franzen -
Maybe other people are like mirrors that we see ourselves in; versions of ourselves that vary dramatically depending on the particular cut of glass.
-- Jonathan Hull -
Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror
-- Jonathan Lethem -
I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
-- Jonathan Pryce -
The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.
-- Jonathan Raban -
Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)
-- Jonathan Stroud -
There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.
-- Jonathan Stroud -
One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
-- Jonathan Stroud -
I like what I see in the mirror. I liked what I saw in the mirror before. It just didn't work in a bikini. And now it does. So I'm excited!
-- Jordin Sparks -
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.
-- Jose Saramago -
Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.
-- Josef Skvorecky -
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
-- Joseph Campbell -
We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.
-- Joseph Epstein -
The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.
-- Josephine Winslow Johnson -
I was self-conscious of being so lanky, of being me. I'd keep my head down, make excuses not to go out. I'd look in the mirror and hate myself. I thought I was disgusting. I cried constantly from 11 to 16. If I could tell my younger self anything, it would be to learn to love your flaws. It's OK to look in the mirror and feel really confident about yourself.
-- Jourdan Dunn -
Every time you look in the mirror remember that God created you and that everything He creates is beautiful and good!
-- Joyce Meyer -
There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.
-- Judith Viorst -
We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.
-- Judy Grahn -
The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.
-- Judy Grahn -
Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.
-- Juice Newton -
The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.
-- Jules Breton -
I don't need a mirror to see that it's true, cause I'm ugly with a capital U.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
When they took me to do the camera test for the vampire make up, after they put the prosthetic on, I went though the entire process, I went back to my trailer and I looked in the mirror and I smiled.
-- Julie Benz -
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
-- Julie Burchill -
I just feel like I understand Cameron Diaz better than I ever have before, and I don’t like it. I don’t like to see everything I see. It’s like a magnifying mirror only soulful, and I’m not looking at her, I’m looking at us, you know? And our pores are huge.
-- Julie Klausner -
What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
-- Justina Chen -
I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me.
-- Justina Chen -
Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.
-- Justus von Liebig -
He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.
-- K. D. Lang -
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
-- Kabir -
My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.
-- Kadir Nelson -
Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
-- Karl Kraus -
You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.
-- Kate Moss -
I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.
-- Katharine McPhee -
I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.
-- Katori Hall -
If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
-- Ken Blanchard -
I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.
-- Ken Kesey -
Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.
-- Kendrick Lamar -
I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.
-- Kendrick Lamar -
A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.
-- Kenneth Anger -
To feel is to communicate with your Spirit-with God. Feeling is God's mirror; intuition is God's telephone. To seek your truth is to deepen your connection to Spirit.
-- Kenny Loggins -
Kids are like a mirror, what they see and hear they do. Be a good reflection for them.
-- Kevin Heath -
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-- Khalil Gibran -
When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.
-- Khushwant Singh -
I turned back to the mirror, seeing that there were no lines on it. It was empty. "What happened to my mirror?" I said, bewildered. Then realizing that I was looking at the back of the dumb thing, I swore and turned it over.
-- Kim Harrison -
He froze as the scent of her hair met him. It was touching his cheek,tickling him. I cant afford this, he thought, but he didnt move, watching her finger trace the new line. "He cracked my mirror,"she said, clearly angry.
-- Kim Harrison -
The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.
-- Kinky Friedman -
The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff - guilt, anger - this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts.
-- Krishna Das -
Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.
-- Kristen Bell -
I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.
-- Kylie Bax
