Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Cooper

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Chogyam Trungpa

If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.

Edith Wharton

The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.

Denis Waitley

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.

Mark Cuban

Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

Agnes Varda

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

Charlie Chaplin

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

Charles de Lint

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

Chang-Rae Lee

I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror.

Betty Friedan

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Bob Schieffer

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Scott Peters

So you have read the newspapers and you still want to do this?

Pete Boone

You read newspapers and you read that people think you can't win at Ole Miss. You can.

Carl Sandburg

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

Brenda Fassie

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

Richard Gilhooly

There's nothing surprising in this when you see day after day after day after day, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 layoffs, ... So if anyone's shocked by this, they haven't been reading the newspapers for the past three months.

Gary Pruitt

The conventional wisdom is that newspapers are dead. That's the view out there, but it couldn't be more wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.

M.I.A.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

Henry Mintzberg

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Ted Cruz

If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

John Locke

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

Philip Yancey

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.