Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kinky Friedman

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

Margaret Atwood

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

Kinky Friedman

The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.

Bruce Sterling

Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

Meher Baba

Form is solidified energy; energy is an expression of mind; mind is the covered mirror of Eternity; and Eternity is Truth that has thrown off the mask of mind.

Rachel Caine

...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start

Pete Seeger

When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

Paulo Coelho

I gaze lovingly at "Hilal" a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.

Peter Lynch

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

Picabo Street

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.

Mike Figgis

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

Mira Nair

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Peace Pilgrim

The world is like a mirror; if you smile at it, it smiles at you. I love to smile, and so in general, I definitely receive smiles in return.

Terry Pratchett

Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.

Terry Pratchett

She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

Terry Pratchett

Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.

Terence McKenna

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Sebastian Vettel

Maybe Ferrari's mirrors are excellent & have HD resolution

Scarlett Johansson

I always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through.

Lawrence Durrell

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

Lawrence Durrell

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Larry David

Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

Sharon Osbourne

If you don't want to see the biggest fool in your life; break your bedroom mirror.

Taylor Swift

You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

Tatiana Maslany

So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

Tavis Smiley

Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don’t allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.

Josh Radnor

And so, however many people watch this thing, that's how many different opinions there will be about it. But I don't feel like it has an agenda in terms of its ideology. It just presents a story like a mirror. It's a mirror more than it is than a distorted mirror.

Joseph Fiennes

A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so than in a period piece. This is a modern piece, as much as it is set in a different time, age and myth. If it wasn't relevant, it wouldn't have been made and we wouldn't be putting our energy into it. It's relevant for us today because, in some ways, it throws up a mirror to all of us. As an actor, you get stimulus and you're effected by that, whether it's costumes or funny beards or castles.

Kate Moss

You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.

Laurell K. Hamilton

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

Lacey Chabert

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

Linda Evangelista

One of the reasons I wanted to come back is I got sick of seeing really ugly pictures of myself in the tabloids. I got to the point where I'd look in the mirror and say: "Where'd she go? Because she's still in there." I knew she was still in there (she laughs) and it didn't take much to get her out.