Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Macbeth

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

Duke Ellington

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Stanley Hauerwas

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Sebastian Faulks

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

John Podhoretz

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Nicolas Cage

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

Francis Bacon

Praise is the reflection of virtue.

George Santayana

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

Chris Wooding

On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Brian Bosworth

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

Jamie Drummond

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Alain de Botton

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

Jane Wagner

My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.

Arthur C. Clarke

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

Conor McGregor

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

Brian Cox

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

Janet Jackson

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

Jane Wagner

Mirrors can't talk. Luckily for you, they can't laugh either.

Debra Winger

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

Edmund Muskie

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Anna Quindlen

The purse is the mirror of the soul.

Andy Warhol

People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?

Rajneesh

Many times people ask me, "What is sin and what is virtue? And how to decide?" If you decide your decision will be wrong. If you choose you will be wrong. All choice is wrong. There is no way to decide. There is no need to decide what is sin and what is virtue. You only need a transparent mind, a clarity, a thoughtless mind, a no-mind, a mirror-like consciousness. In that consciousness WHATSOEVER HAPPENS is virtue. In that consciousness WHATSOEVER CANNOT HAPPEN is sin.

Rumi

Criticism polishes my mirror.