Mirrors famous quotes
04-23-2025
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And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and in its mirror you will see your image. You will knowthat when you hid from Nature, you hid from yourselfWe who have been turned away from Nature - if we desire life, we must establish a new relationship with Nature.
-- A. D. Gordon -
Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
-- A. E. Housman -
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.
-- Adrian Tchaikovsky -
Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.
-- Aeschylus -
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
-- Agnes de Mille -
Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us
-- Alain de Lille -
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?
-- Alan Cooper -
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
-- Alan King -
When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.
-- Alan Shearer -
I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.
-- Alannah Myles -
I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.
-- Albert Finney -
It is our very search, our lust for the miraculous and magical, that hides from us the truth that simply to be, simply to know I am, is already the miracle that we seek. Everything, as it is, is perfect, but you must stop seeing it as if in a mirror, as if in a dream.
-- Albert Low -
Everything you experience mirrors a part of you.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
We now know that whatever you vibrate, you create and attract to yourself. So, you work on healing yourself in order to create peace around you. You become peace. If there is conflict living within you, you cannot live in a world of peace. The world mirrors back to you perfectly the condition of your love and of your intent. And if the world you re living in is not a world that is at peace and at joy and at grace, then you have to find peace, joy, and grace within you.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all the reflections and is amused by them. Then you will recognize your path and walk it.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.
-- Alec Soth -
Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors
-- Alejandra Pizarnik -
You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen.
-- Alek Wek -
When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.
-- Alex Grey -
If you're not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you're building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you're not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.
-- Alice Bag -
The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.
-- Alice Bailey -
A shrieking rise of power rushed into my pathways, rocking me against the wall. Ido's body slammed into mine. He was not going to let go. Not now. The Rat Dragon howled, his heavy blue force driven back by the onslaught of sinuous gold. Raw,rejoicing energy flooded my seven centers of power; opening,pushing, seeking. And behind it all, a presence exulting in the joy of release and reunion. I looked up and finally my mind-sight was clear. I could see the Mirror Dragon. My Dragon.
-- Alison Goodman -
It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.
-- Alison Sweeney -
I like Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm because I don't need a mirror to reapply. But I definitely treat myself with face lotion - I use La Mer.
-- Alison Sweeney -
For Calvin, the creation reflects its Creator at every point. Image after images flashed in front of our eyes, as Calvin attempts to convey the multiplicity of ways in which the creation witnesses to its Creator: it is like a visible garment, which the invisible God dons in order to make himself known; it is like a book in which the name on the Creator is written as its author; it is like a theater, in which the glory of God is publicly displayed; it is like a mirror, in which the works and wisdom of God are reflected.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.
-- Alix Kates Shulman -
I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn't doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could
-- Allen Iverson -
I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.
-- Allen Iverson -
Of course, like any woman, I look in the mirror and think, 'Oh, wouldn't I look better with a bit of Botox?' But you've got to find comfort in your own skin. I've watched women stretch themselves year after year until their faces are no longer recognisable.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.
-- Amelie Nothomb -
Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.
-- Amit Ray -
I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write.
-- Amy Poehler -
One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
-- Anais Nin -
You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.
-- Andre Benjamin -
When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.
-- Andre Benjamin -
The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.
-- Andre Breton -
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
-- Andre Breton -
What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
-- Andrea Gibson -
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
 on a day you’re feeling good. 
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror
 on a day you’re feeling bad.
 I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty
 could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.
-- Andrew Graham-Dixon -
Coming into contact with the Mother is coming into contact with a force of passionate and active compassion in every area and dimension of life, a force that longs to be invoked by us to help transform all the existing conditions of life on earth so that they can mirror ever more clearly and accurately her law, her justice, and her love.
-- Andrew Harvey -
For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.
-- Andrew Keen -
There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?
-- Andy Warhol -
Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.
-- Andy Warhol -
Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something
-- Andy Warhol -
So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.
-- Andy Whitfield -
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
-- Ani DiFranco -
The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.
-- Ani DiFranco -
If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.
-- Ani DiFranco -
Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.
-- Ann Coulter -
He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
-- Ann Voskamp -
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.
-- Anna Katharine Green -
To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.
-- Anna Sui -
When I want to feel sexy, I like to dance-even if I'm at home by myself in my knee-high socks sliding there like 'Risky Business'… my sisters and I, if one of us starts, we're all there in front of the mirror, dancing, and it's just obnoxious. I feel sexy when I do that.
-- AnnaLynne McCord -
When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy
-- Anne Hathaway -
Mirror, mirror on the wall, whos the dumbest of you all?
-- Anne Robinson -
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
-- Anne Roiphe -
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.
-- Annie Besant -
A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
-- Anthony de Mello -
In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.
-- Antonio Villaraigosa -
What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
When you start comparing yourself to another man's mirror, that's when those negative thoughts start creeping in. My journey isn't anybody else's journey.
-- Arian Foster -
When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The good bodybuilders have the same mind ... that a sculptor has. If you analyze it, you look in the mirror and you say, okay, I need a bit more deltoids ... so that the proportion's right, and ... you exercise and put those deltoids on, whereas an artist would just slap on some clay on each side.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.
-- Arthur Dove -
Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it.
-- Arthur J. Deikman -
No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
I love change, and I love changing my hair. But it was strange to look in the mirror and think 'Who is this girl?
-- Ashley Tisdale -
A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.
-- Ashley Young -
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.
-- Auguste Rodin -
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.
-- Ayn Rand -
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
-- Baal Shem Tov -
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address
-- Barbara Brown Taylor -
We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right, even when it is in power, likes to think of itself as an embattled minority against this elite that somehow runs everything. Whereas the left, even when it has no power at all, likes to imagine it somehow represents the majority of people. These are mirror-image delusions.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
-- Barbra Streisand -
You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.
-- Barry Lyga -
Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
-- Bear Grylls -
I know you followed me. Don't look so surprised. It's called a rearview mirror.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I was just about to ask you the same thing. I know you followed me. Don't look so suprised. It's called a rearview mirror. Are you stalking me for a specific reason?
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
-- Bela Lugosi -
Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
-- Bernie Glassman -
Look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
-- Bernie Glassman -
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
-- Bette Davis -
When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.
-- Betty Sue Flowers -
You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.
-- Bill Joy
