Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.