Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Paul Feig

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.

Marshall McLuhan

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

Marshall McLuhan

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 go forward looking in the rearview mirror.

Michel de Montaigne

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.

Markus Zusak

You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. find yourself a mirror while I continue.

Mark Leibovich

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

Francois Rabelais

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

Chris Sarandon

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

Jordin Sparks

I like what I see in the mirror. I liked what I saw in the mirror before. It just didn't work in a bikini. And now it does. So I'm excited!

Jorge Luis Borges

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

Jorge Luis Borges

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

Jorge Luis Borges

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

Jorge Luis Borges

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Jonathan Stroud

Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)

Jonathan Stroud

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Jo Brand

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

James Patterson

Please, sit down," Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks.

James Patterson

I flipped down the visor so I could check myself in the mirror, and something small and heavy dropped into my lap. I froze, my breath stuck in my throat. What—? Gingerly, I looked down. It wasn’t a grenade. It was a key ring. One key was for this van. I looked at it blankly. “Well, that’ll simplify things,” Fang said.

Hayley Mills

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

Helen Oyeyemi

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

Heather Morris

I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.

Khalil Gibran

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Jonathan Pryce

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

Jonathan Raban

The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.

Napoleon Hill

Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.

Orson Welles

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

Octavio Paz

The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.