Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Hodges

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

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

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

Grant Morrison

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

It's like their opinions mirror our same concerns.

Jill Tarter

SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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.

Jennifer Lopez

I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

Jennifer Lopez

You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

Jean Kerr

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.

James A. Baldwin

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

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

When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas.

Fulton J. Sheen

Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.

Franz Grillparzer

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Jeanette Winterson

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

Jim Carrey

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

Ultimately, we're not the avatars we create. We're not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.

Jeaniene Frost

...that left Francesca to slink into the chair opposite us. My feeling of superiority was short-lived, however, when she settled herself down and then crossed her legs. I didn't need a mirror to know my whole face had just turned red. With a hemline up to her thighs that gesture didn't leave anything to the imagination. Bones curled his fingers around mine and squeezed. His hand was still warmed from our contact moments ago. That's how fast he had to grab me again to keep me sitting where I was instead of yanking off my jacket to make her a pair of panties.

Jean-Paul Sartre

When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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-Luc Godard

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

Jerry Reed

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.

Jasper Fforde

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.

Evan Bayh

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

Evita Peron

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Gregory Maguire

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.

Guy Finley

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

Gottfried Leibniz

The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe. The Monadology.

Erich Maria Remarque

Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

Erich Maria Remarque

Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them.

Erica Jong

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love.