Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

At the Sharper Image store, I saw a body fat analyzer. Didn't that used to be called a mirror?

Bruno Mars

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

James Ellis

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Kinky Friedman

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

Margaret Atwood

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

Kinky Friedman

The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.

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.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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.

Naomi Watts

I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

Publilius Syrus

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

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.

It was just a sit down, look in the mirror and say, 'Quit doing this.' And that's it, just stick with it because it's embarrassing.

Mark Burnett

I wanted the palette to mirror who they are.

It's like their opinions mirror our same concerns.

Ray Bradbury

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

Ray Bradbury

Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival.

Shay Mitchell

When you look at yourself in the mirror, don't pinpoint the things that you aren't happy with. Appreciate what you were born with and acknowledge the fact that you are you, and that is something to celebrate.

Sebastian Horsley

I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.

Neil Young

And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary.

Noam Chomsky

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Jodi Picoult

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

Jodi Picoult

The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.

John Green

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

John Green

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

John Green

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

Marie Corelli

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

Theodore Sturgeon

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

Terry McMillan

I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.

Margaret Mead

... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.