Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Evanovich

Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered.

Ethan Embry

When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film's over, I'll do something like shave my head.

Carolyn Kizer

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

Grant Morrison

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

Frank Herbert

What does a mirror look at?

Jay-Z

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

Jay-Z

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

Jay Leno

At the Sharper Image store, I saw a body fat analyzer. Didn't that used to be called a mirror?

Moby

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Moliere

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

Jim Hodges

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

Erica Jong

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

Jasper Fforde

Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.

Evan Bayh

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

Isobelle Carmody

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.

Italo Calvino

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

Jack Abbott

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

Jack Kirby

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.

J. G. Ballard

I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.

Logan Pearsall Smith

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

Louis Sullivan

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

John Fowles

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

Jonathan Haidt

The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror.

Jonathan Evison

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Conserve the vital energy, follow a balanced diet, and always smile and be happy. He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. If you feel that you can't smile, stand before a mirror and with your fingers pull your mouth into a smile. It is that important!

Patty Duke

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned

Meher Baba

Form is solidified energy; energy is an expression of mind; mind is the covered mirror of Eternity; and Eternity is Truth that has thrown off the mask of mind.

Rachel Caine

...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start

Pete Seeger

When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.