Mirrors famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.
-- L. Frank Baum -
I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
-- Lacey Chabert -
I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.
-- Lance Armstrong -
People still tell me I’m fat, but when I look in the mirror, that’s not what I see.
-- Lara Stone -
My credo is etched on my mirror in my bathroom and I see it when I brush my teeth in the morning. It says, "Don't worry, Be Happy, Feel Good." When you see that first thing, and you reflect on it, the rest of the day seems to glide by pretty well.
-- Larry Hagman -
There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
-- Lauren Bacall -
Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.
-- Lauren Hutton -
There was Layla in the fullness of her lips, Lulu in the thick waves of her hair, Lu Xin in the intensity of her hazel eyes, Lucia in their twinkle. She was not alone. Maybe she never would be alone again. There, in the mirror, was every incarnation of Lucinda staring back at her and wondering, "What is to become of us? What about our history, and our love?
-- Lauren Kate -
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.
-- Laurie Halse Anderson -
I am locked into the mirror and there is no door out.
-- Laurie Halse Anderson -
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?
-- Lawrence Durrell -
There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?
-- LeBron James -
The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.
-- Lee Friedlander -
Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.
-- Lee Ritenour -
But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.
-- Lena Dunham -
Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.
-- Lennart Meri -
...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being in this predicament, because nothing else would seem to us quite true to life; and art, after all, is supposed to be a mirror of life.
-- Leo Steinberg -
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?
-- Leon Trotsky -
I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.
-- Les Wexner -
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.
-- Lewis Black -
I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.
-- Lewis H. Lapham -
I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a ***** good-looking ***** you are.' And then I brighten up.
-- Liam Gallagher -
You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.
-- Lil Wayne -
Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.
-- Lily Collins -
The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.
-- Lincoln Hall -
Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.
-- Linus Torvalds -
In the ladies' room, Alice studied her image in the mirror. The reflected older woman's face didn't quite match the picture that she had of herself in her mind's eye." p 35
-- Lisa Genova -
I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea; I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
It's easy to get caught up in how our figures look when we stand naked in front of the mirror. But we must remember that we are more than how we look. We are not ***** who happen to have hearts, minds, and souls; rather, we are souls that just happen to have mounds of flesh protruding from our chests.
-- Lissa Rankin -
I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.
-- Liv Ullmann -
I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.
-- Liz Phair -
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.
-- Lord Dunsany -
I believe that everything has a purpose and that everything a person does will come back to haunt or save him. Life is like a mirror in which everything we do is reflected back to us. We might not be able to recognize the reflection, and at times the image may be hidden. We may take years to see it or it may not even be visible during our lifetime. But it all comes around in the end. Space is as infinite as our actions are timeless. We are all part of the same invisible story, all travelling in a single continuum.
-- Lorenzo Quinn -
I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.
-- Loretta Young -
When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.
-- Lou Reed -
Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a reflection in a cracked mirror.
-- Louella Parsons -
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. Acknowledging the role of molecules that have stereoisomers, some the mirror image of the others, and microorganisms whose chemistry prefers only one of those forms.
-- Louis Pasteur -
Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.
-- Louis Sullivan -
No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.
-- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson -
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.
-- Louise Colet -
What a lot of people don't understand is that when you change your thinking, when you accept different concepts, then life mirrors those for you. If you can get the concept that you're worthy and loveable and that you deserve to have a better life, life starts bringing those opportunities to you, because that's your belief system.
-- Louise Hay -
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.
-- Louise Hay -
My body mirrors my state of mind. I am healthy, whole and complete
-- Louise Hay -
Look in the mirror and tell yourself how wonderful you are.
-- Louise Hay -
The body, like everything else in life, is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs. Every cell within your body responds to every single thought you think and every word you speak.
-- Louise Hay -
I only attract loving people in my world for they are a mirror of what I am.
-- Louise Hay -
Every day it gets easier to look into my own eyes on the mirror and say, "I love you just the way you are."
-- Louise Hay -
We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work on in this lifetime.
-- Louise Hay -
My toughest enemy is in the mirror - would you look at that.
-- Ludacris -
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein -
We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.
-- Luigi Pirandello -
If you don't like the reflection. Don't look in the mirror. I don't care.
-- Luka Magnotta -
Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: “When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror.
-- Lundy Bancroft -
I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
-- Lynda Barry -
Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide.
-- Lynette Fromme -
My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch..... Laura Acosta
-- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -
I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.
-- M.I.A. -
By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways...our family, our peers, our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never meet again. So when you brush your teeth every morning, look in the mirror and ask yourself...'Are there things I'd like to change?'
-- Mac Anderson -
Oh lord, it's hard to be humble when your perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, cause I get better looking each day.
-- Mac Davis -
Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light, we are all made out of shadows like the shapes on a motion-picture screen. A lot of people think that the function of the projector is to throw light on the screen, just as the function of the story-teller is to stop fooling around and simply tell what happened, but the dark places must be there too, because without the dark places there would be no image and the figure on the screen would not exist.
-- MacDonald Harris -
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.
-- Maeve Brennan -
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
-- Malcolm De Chazal -
Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?
-- Malcolm Turnbull -
When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.
-- Marcus Mumford -
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio -
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All of the motives a human being may have, which are mixed, that's the novelists' materials. That's where they have to go. And a lot of that just isn't pretty. We like to think of ourselves as really, really good people. But look in the mirror. Really look. Look at your own mixed motives. And then multiply that.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.
-- Margaret Atwood -
To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.
-- Margaret Atwood -
To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.
-- Margaret Atwood -
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.
-- Margaret Atwood -
When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
-- Margaret Turnbull -
Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision, only when we are the wind together streaming and singing, only in the dream we become with our bones for spears, we are real at last and wake.
-- Marge Piercy -
Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
-- Marge Piercy -
Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.
-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington -
the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.
-- Marguerite Yourcenar -
Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.
-- Marie Corelli -
I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.
-- Marilyn Monroe -
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
-- Marilyn Monroe -
People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.
-- Marilyn Monroe -
I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
-- Marina Warner -
I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
-- Marissa Mayer -
Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.
-- Marissa Meyer -
Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I atmire my hantyworg. I am a hooman apstrat paining.
-- Mark Dunn -
Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.
-- Mark Haddon -
If other people think I’m okay looking, that’s great, but I don’t see it myself. When I look in the mirror all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.
-- Mark Harmon -
Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?
-- Mark Z. Danielewski -
The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.
-- Martha Gellhorn -
Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!
-- Martin Gardner
