Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

Virginia Woolf

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Wes Anderson

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

Vinton Cerf

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

Jorge Luis Borges

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Jonathan Raban

The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.

John Green

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

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.

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.

Paul Feig

I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.

Marshall McLuhan

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

Marshall McLuhan

The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

Marshall McLuhan

We go forward looking in the rearview mirror.

Pat Benatar

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

Pat Conroy

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

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.

Karen Walker

Always take one last look in a full-length mirror before leaving the house.

Kristen Bell

Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.

Kim Harrison

I turned back to the mirror, seeing that there were no lines on it. It was empty. "What happened to my mirror?" I said, bewildered. Then realizing that I was looking at the back of the dumb thing, I swore and turned it over.

Mark Twain

This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

Nicholas Sparks

Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?” With that, she sighed. “Shouldn’t you be with your friends, staring at yourselves in the mirror?” He laughed. “That’s funny. I’ll have to remember that.” “I’m not being funny. I’m being serious.” “Oh, because we’re so good-looking

Natasha Lyonne

As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.

Natasha Lyonne

It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

Marguerite Yourcenar

the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.

Naomi Watts

I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

Publilius Syrus

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

Leonardo da Vinci

The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.

Leonardo da Vinci

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

Oscar Wilde

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

Paul Ricoeur

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Leon Trotsky

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

Paul Brunton

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

Kristen Stewart

I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.