Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

Criticism polishes my mirror.

Gottfried Leibniz

The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe. The Monadology.

Harold Pinter

It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.

James Branch Cabell

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Jacques Barzun

Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.

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?

Grant Morrison

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

Nina Hagen

I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.

Mitch Albom

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Mitch Albom

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

Mike Tyson

I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.

Miguel de Cervantes

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Neil Gaiman

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

John Waters

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

Sandra Cisneros

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.