Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giorgos Seferis

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

Everything we see is but a mirror of what we are.

J. K. Rowling

I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.

Harold Pinter

It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.

James Branch Cabell

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Jacques Barzun

Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.

Iris Apfel

You have to look in the mirror and see yourself. If it feels good, then I know it's for me. I don't dress to be stared at, I dress for myself.

Pat Benatar

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

Pat Conroy

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

Leonardo da Vinci

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

Leonardo da Vinci

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

Oscar Wilde

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

Paul Ricoeur

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Leon Trotsky

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?

Natasha Lyonne

As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.

Natasha Lyonne

It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

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.

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.

Kristen Stewart

I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.

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.

Paul Brunton

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

Oscar Wilde

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

Luke Mably

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

Liv Ullmann

I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

Mark Twain

This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

Nicholas Sparks

Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?” With that, she sighed. “Shouldn’t you be with your friends, staring at yourselves in the mirror?” He laughed. “That’s funny. I’ll have to remember that.” “I’m not being funny. I’m being serious.” “Oh, because we’re so good-looking