Mirrors famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.
-- Paul Feig -
Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.
-- Paul Morand -
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
-- Paul Ricoeur -
Dysmorphia is when someone looks in the mirror, and sees something else. While I studied my own whatever I was, I decided that maybe everyone has at least a touch of dysmorphia; maybe it's impossible for anyone to ever truly know what they look like.
-- Paul Rudnick -
When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'
-- Paul Scholes -
You ask me 'What’s the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of God’s word, and see all my faults, all my sin, all my shortcomings and to believe that God loves me exactly as he says he does.
-- Paul Washer -
If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.
-- Paula Fox -
My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.
-- Paulina Porizkova -
The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
-- Peace Pilgrim -
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
-- Pearl Bailey -
I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.
-- Peg Bracken -
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.
-- Pete Seeger -
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'
-- Pete Townshend -
It was the single best sexual encounter I've ever had. We were in the Soho Grand Hotel, and there was a mirror, and I was like, 'Oh my God, you're banging the girl of your dreams and you're watching it right now.'
-- Pete Wentz -
I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.
-- Peter Altenberg -
Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It’s actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all.
-- Peter Enns -
You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
-- Peter Lynch -
Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror, Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer. The truth is that you ugly... Not on the outside, but in the inside; On the outside, you frontin' you lovely.
-- Pharoahe Monch -
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
-- Phil Ochs -
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
-- Phyllis McGinley -
Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.
-- Picabo Street -
You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.
-- Pico Iyer -
The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.
-- Piet Mondrian -
It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.
-- Pieter Zeeman -
The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.
-- Pope Gregory I -
Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind like a mirror, so that we may view our inner face therein.
-- Pope Gregory I -
When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.
-- Queen Latifah -
Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.
-- R. C. Sproul, Jr. -
O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand.
-- Ralph Cudworth -
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.
-- Ralph Ellison -
Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.
-- Ravi Zacharias -
In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.
-- Ray Bradbury -
He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?
-- Ray Bradbury -
I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.
-- Ray Davies -
Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them.
-- Ray Kurzweil -
I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.
-- Ray Romano -
But to demand that a work be “relatable†expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book or movie or play: she expects the work to be done for her. If the concept of identification suggested that an individual experiences a work as a mirror in which he might recognize himself, the notion of relatability implies that the work in question serves like a selfie: a flattering confirmation of an individual's solipsism.
-- Rebecca Mead -
Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.
-- Regina Brett -
The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images of one another. The research man does something and does not care [exactly] what it is that happens, he measures whatever it is. The inventor wants something to happen, but does not care how it happens or what it is that happens if it is not what he wants.
-- Reginald Fessenden -
In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.
-- Rex Brandt -
If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'
-- Richard Bach -
Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.
-- Richard Bach -
I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.
-- Richard Condon -
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.
-- Richard Flanagan -
All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
-- Richard Francis Burton -
I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.
-- Richard Gere -
What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it
-- Richard Harding Davis -
Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.
-- Richard Howard -
We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.
-- Richard Le Gallienne -
We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.
-- Richard Rohr -
One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion.
-- Richard Tyrrell -
Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.
-- Ricky Martin -
In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.
-- Ricky Williams -
Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me Through the glass of a two-sided mirror.
-- Rihanna -
Stand naked in front of the mirror and say, 'I'm f–king sexy.' That's where it starts.
-- Rita Ora -
The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.
-- Rita Rudner -
I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.
-- Robbie Coltraine -
Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.
-- Robert Anton Wilson -
So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.
-- Robert Breault -
I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.
-- Robert Breault -
Life is a mirror. You get what you see. If you project anger into the mirror, that is what you get back. If you project joy into the mirror, it reflects joy right back to you. Failure for failure. Success for success. What you project is what is reflected back to you.
-- Robert G. Allen -
One of the most important lessons to learn about relationships is that it is not another person’s job to make you happy. Your happiness is not someone else’s job. Until you realize this, you will always be dissatisfied with your relationships. Ultimately, your relationship with others mirrors your relationship to happiness.
-- Robert Holden -
The world is only a mirror. You will only see in the world what you're prepared to see in yourself-nothing more and nothing less.
-- Robert Holden -
A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.
-- Robert Lloyd -
Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.
-- Robert M -
Take a good hard look in the mirror, and remember yourself as you are today, cause as time changes, so does the scenery.
-- Robert M. Hensel -
Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.
-- Robert McKee -
I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and family, but the high spot of every day is when I first catch a glimpse of myself in the shaving mirror.
-- Robert Morley -
I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
-- Robert Rauschenberg -
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
-- Robert Stack -
The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.
-- Robert Wilson Lynd -
When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.
-- Robert Winston -
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
-- Roberto Bolano -
The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.
-- Robertson Davies -
The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don’t ever be angry with your horse: you might as well be angry with your mirror.
-- Rudolf G. Binding -
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
-- Rudolf Steiner -
Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.
-- Rudy Wiebe -
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
-- Rumi -
No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.
-- Rumi -
If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.
-- Rumi -
We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.
-- Rumi -
The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection.
-- Rumi -
The one who has a good friend doesn't need any mirror.
-- Rumi -
Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oÆ’ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.
-- Rumi -
Love is cure, Love is power, Love is the magic of changes. Love is the mirror, of divine beauty!
-- Rumi -
We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.
-- Rumi -
As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
-- Rumi -
For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.
-- Russell Lynes -
I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
-- Sam Peckinpah -
Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.
-- Sam Storms
