Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

Mason Cooley

Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.

Mason Cooley

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

Mason Cooley

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Mason Cooley

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

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?

Harvey Mackay

Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success.

Joan Didion

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

Jimi Hendrix

I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me.

Jimi Hendrix

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

Jim Morrison

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

Eric Thomas

Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror

Emma McLaughlin

You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going to do with my life, Diane. But I'm hoping being shaped like a barbell could only be a hindrance.

Emma Goldman

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

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.

Neil Gaiman

I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?

Neil Gaiman

Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness.

Neil Gaiman

I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity.

Neil Gaiman

Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caught in a mirror trap. Here is the passage that follows: "So," said Silas. "Now there are only three of us." "And a pig," said Kandar [the mummy] "Why?" Asked Miss Lupescu, with a wolf-tongue, through wolf teeth. "Why the Pig?" "It's lucky," said Kandar. Miss Lupescu growled, unconvinced. "Did Haroun have a pig?" asked Kandar, simply.

Neil Gaiman

Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

John Piper

Lives of faith are the great mirror of the dependability of God.

John Piper

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

Martin Mull

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

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.

Seth Godin

We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?

Seth Godin

The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.

Todd Solondz

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

Rajneesh

With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen - then you become a mirror. With the ego you will always interpret, you cannot know the truth. With the ego you will always be there interpreting in subtle ways, and your interpretation is not the truth. You are the medium of all falsification. Through you everything becomes false. When you are not there, the true reflects.

Rajneesh

Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Why on earth would you want to talk to me? (Channon) My lady, do you not own a mirror? (Sebastian) Yes, but it’s not an enchanted one. (Channon)

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.