Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rohr

When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.

Tupac Shakur

A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul

Tori Spelling

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.

Robert G. Allen

Life is a mirror. You get what you see. If you project anger into the mirror, that is what you get back. If you project joy into the mirror, it reflects joy right back to you. Failure for failure. Success for success. What you project is what is reflected back to you.

Wallace Stevens

Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Virginia Woolf

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Wallace Shawn

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

Tyra Banks

Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!

Twyla Tharp

I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

Stefan Zweig

What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme--to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life.

Russell Wilson

The only person I can change is the one in the mirror.

Rumi

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

Rumi

Criticism polishes my mirror.

Rumi

The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection.

Roy H. Williams

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

Roger Zelazny

...even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?" "I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks." "All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality.

Solon

Speech is the mirror of action.

Mira Nair

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Peace Pilgrim

The world is like a mirror; if you smile at it, it smiles at you. I love to smile, and so in general, I definitely receive smiles in return.

Pearl Bailey

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

Phyllis McGinley

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Terence McKenna

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Sebastian Vettel

Maybe Ferrari's mirrors are excellent & have HD resolution

Scarlett Johansson

I always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through.

Lawrence Durrell

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

Lawrence Durrell

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Larry David

Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

Vanna Bonta

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Val Kilmer

My only challenge is to entertain. And I accomplish my task better when I myself am entertained by what I am doing. I am very critical of myself, I constantly set the bar higher and higher. I try to surpass myself. That`s all. But I also know how to preserve myself, to not let myself get bedazzled by the smoke and mirrors.

Suzanne Collins

Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say. "It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks. "Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say. "Not if I keep looking at you," he says.

Stephen King

The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM