Quotes about Mirrors

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Votes: 4

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them. Votes: 4

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we. Votes: 4

Mirrors lie. Votes: 3

Mirrors are the essence of movies. Votes: 3

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors! Votes: 3

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image. Votes: 3

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. Votes: 3

Mirrors are useless for reflecting who you are. Votes: 3

Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted. Votes: 3

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. Votes: 3

Mirrors can't talk. Luckily for you, they can't laugh either. Votes: 3

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. Votes: 3

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use. Votes: 3

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link. Votes: 3

Mirrors at the gym only serve to remind me that I'm less of a man than I'd like to be. Votes: 3

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees Votes: 3

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it. Votes: 3

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain. Votes: 3

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it. Votes: 3

Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace. Votes: 3

Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace. Votes: 3

Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be. Votes: 3

Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are alone or what is behind them. Votes: 3

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor. Votes: 3

Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of a modern home. By using them, there are no dark, gloomy corners, no drab caverns for halls. There can be a feeling of freedom, light, air, space. Votes: 3

Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself. Votes: 3

I speed up past mirrors. Votes: 2

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. Votes: 2

Speech is the mirror of the soul. Votes: 2

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. Votes: 2

You mirror what the world mirrors to you. Votes: 2

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. Votes: 2

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Votes: 2

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. Votes: 2

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. Votes: 2

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror. Votes: 2

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. Votes: 2

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. Votes: 2

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection. Votes: 2

I use to live in a room full of mirrors, all I could see was me. Votes: 2

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Votes: 2

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. Votes: 2

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. Votes: 2

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Votes: 2

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. Votes: 2

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. Votes: 2

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting. Votes: 2

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. Votes: 2

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened. Votes: 2

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. Votes: 2

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. Votes: 2

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. Votes: 2

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time. Votes: 2

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with Votes: 2

There must be something wrong with the mirrors in our house because every single one I gaze into makes me appear somewhat overweight. Votes: 2

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be. Votes: 2

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors. Votes: 2

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that. Votes: 2

The mirror can lie. Doesn't show you what's inside. And it, it can tell you you're full of life. It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile. Votes: 2

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man. Votes: 2

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions. Smoke and mirrors. Votes: 2

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. Votes: 2

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet. Votes: 2

I hate actual newspapers. In my opinion, they are only good for wrapping up presents or cleaning mirrors. Or packing boxes. Or stuffing into knee-high boots to help retain their shape. Or using for fun crafts. Okay, I don't hate actual newspapers, I guess. Votes: 2

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself. Votes: 2

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun. Votes: 2

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital. Votes: 2

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. Votes: 2

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind. Votes: 1

Believers are each other's mirrors. Votes: 0

Newspapers are the world's mirrors. Votes: 0

Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors. Votes: 0

Believers are each other's mirrors. Votes: 0

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. Votes: 0

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. Votes: 0

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. Votes: 0

Books are the mirrors of the soul. Votes: 0

Hate hates what it mirrors or envies. Votes: 0

All I am is smoke and mirrors ... Votes: 0

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors. Votes: 0

Maybe Ferrari's mirrors are excellent & have HD resolution Votes: 0

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows. Votes: 0

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. Votes: 0

They aren't making mirrors like they use to. Votes: 0

Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image. Votes: 0

Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors. Votes: 0

Everything you experience mirrors a part of you. Votes: 0

There's eyes behind the mirrors in empty places. Votes: 0

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors. Votes: 0

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates. Votes: 0

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. Votes: 0

All I can do now is cover the mirrors... Votes: 0

Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. Votes: 0

How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten. Votes: 0

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Votes: 0

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real? Votes: 0

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows. Votes: 0

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth. Votes: 0

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors. Votes: 0

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors. Votes: 0

The earth and sky are like two mirrors facing each other. Votes: 0

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself. Votes: 0

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers. Votes: 0

I find it a great antidote lipstick and mirrors and hairspray. Votes: 0

We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves. Votes: 0

What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire. Votes: 0

My family life mirrors why I am the person I am. Votes: 0

Saying of the ProphetReflectionThe Faithful are mirrors, one to the other. Votes: 0

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself. Votes: 0

I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world. Votes: 0

I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray. Votes: 0

The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters. Votes: 0

Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. Votes: 0

He sparked on his body that reflect like mini mirrors of diamond Votes: 0

I've been dreaming of mirrors. Millions of mirrors, reflecting people to death. Votes: 0

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves. Votes: 0

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. Votes: 0

Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude. Votes: 0

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged. Votes: 0

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors. Votes: 0

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them. Votes: 0

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better. Votes: 0

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature. Votes: 0

My body mirrors my state of mind. I am healthy, whole and complete Votes: 0

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me. Votes: 0

I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day. Votes: 0

Most people like mirrors; what they do not like, is people, who are mirrors. Votes: 0

I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. Votes: 0

Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face. Votes: 0

My true relationship is with myself - all others are simply mirrors of it. Votes: 0

What I do is put mirrors in the right place to reflect an image. Votes: 0

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors. Votes: 0

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best. Votes: 0

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. Votes: 0

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction. Votes: 0

Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done. Votes: 0

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears? Votes: 0

After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them. Votes: 0

Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors. Votes: 0

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. Votes: 0

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows. Votes: 0

It's an artist's job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors. Votes: 0

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows. Votes: 0

That external struggle mirrors the struggle of this life force of energy that [princess Margaret] was. Votes: 0

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. Votes: 0

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand. Votes: 0

True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light. Votes: 0

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. Votes: 0

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. Votes: 0

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors. Votes: 0

Every word I utter for hip hop lovers Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other... Votes: 0

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else. Votes: 0

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. Votes: 0

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. Votes: 0

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression. Votes: 0

The Universe mirrors you. It mirrors your thoughts, both conscious and subconscious. It mirrors your actions and reactions. Votes: 0

Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be. Votes: 0

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it. Votes: 0

Collage is like a hall of mirrors. Every direction you look, you see something different and visually stimulating. Votes: 0

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension. Votes: 0

I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind. Votes: 0

Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. Votes: 0

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors. Votes: 0

What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them. Votes: 0

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. Votes: 0

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? Votes: 0

Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island! Votes: 0

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.... Votes: 0

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. Votes: 0

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. Votes: 0

People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We live in homes with mirrors. Votes: 0

Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity. Votes: 0

Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author. Votes: 0

Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering. Votes: 0

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. Votes: 0

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours Votes: 0

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible. Votes: 0

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music. Votes: 0

I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like Votes: 0

I always write 'Fight' on the mirrors - that goes way back to the times when you had to fight apathy. Votes: 0

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well. Votes: 0

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors. Votes: 0

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. Votes: 0

Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors Votes: 0

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. Votes: 0

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room. Votes: 0

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . . Votes: 0

It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors. Votes: 0

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. Votes: 0

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass. Votes: 0

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel. Votes: 0

there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do. Votes: 0

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with. Votes: 0

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection. Votes: 0

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. Votes: 0

Did they practice looking suspicious in mirrors? Welcome to the United States. Don't even think about chewing gum the wrong way.' (Carlos) Votes: 0

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. Votes: 0

I heard last year at [insert name]'s birthday party they had to set up mirrors to make it look like a crowd. Votes: 0

The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs. Votes: 0

Your heart mirrors not His love, Rusty with your sins it is, Remove this rust and you shall Perceive how Glorious He is. Votes: 0

They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see. Votes: 0

Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way. Votes: 0

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors. Votes: 0

The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors. Votes: 0

There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy. Votes: 0

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror. Votes: 0

Maybe other people are like mirrors that we see ourselves in; versions of ourselves that vary dramatically depending on the particular cut of glass. Votes: 0

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things. Votes: 0

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians. Votes: 0

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image. Votes: 0

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician. Votes: 0

I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc. Votes: 0

I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you. Votes: 0

Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else? Votes: 0

Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them. Votes: 0

I've had to remove all mirrors from my home. I just can't seem to look at myself without having to buff the bishop, you know? Votes: 0

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars! Votes: 0

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through. Votes: 0

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards. Votes: 0

I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly. Votes: 0

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say. Votes: 0

Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself. Votes: 0

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become. Votes: 0

That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors. Votes: 0

Just as the calm unruffled lake, mirrors the beauty of a scene, I would reflect to those who read, the joys of love and life serene". Votes: 0

And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow. Votes: 0

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. Votes: 0

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors. Votes: 0

Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit. Votes: 0

Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them. Votes: 0

For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot. Votes: 0

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable. Votes: 0

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable. Votes: 0

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself. Votes: 0

Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour. Votes: 0

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring. Votes: 0

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director. Votes: 0

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world Votes: 0

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content. Votes: 0

I don't like clothes shopping and trying on outfits in stuffy cubicles in men's shops, looking hideous in the wrap-round mirrors, is something I attempt as seldom as possible. Votes: 0

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity. Votes: 0

Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable. Votes: 0

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble. Votes: 0

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room. Votes: 0

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. Votes: 0

I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room. Votes: 0

The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces. Votes: 0

Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines. Votes: 0

I call horses divine mirrors - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that. Votes: 0

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn. Votes: 0

These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls! Votes: 0

People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked? Votes: 0

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors. Votes: 0

There are no mirrors of any kind in here. If there were, I'd want to smash them, but I wouldn't. Instead, I'd probably just stare at them, giving myself negative affirmations. Votes: 0

This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27) Votes: 0

Le Carre's voice - patrician, cold, brilliant and amused - was perfect for the wilderness-of-mirrors undertow of the Cold War, and George Smiley is the all-time harassed bureaucrat of spy fiction. Votes: 0

Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors? Votes: 0

I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things. Votes: 0

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet. Votes: 0

It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries. Votes: 0

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose. Votes: 0

I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded - the closest thing to a caravan I could find! Votes: 0

It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. Votes: 0

It was just the two of us, inside there with just mirrors, all the way around us. Everywhere we looked, there were these two freaks, sitting at a table, eyeballing each other Votes: 0

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there. Votes: 0

Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors). Votes: 0

With girls, I don't think right. I had a date with one girl, she had mirrors all over her bedroom. She told me to come over and bring a bottle. I got Windex. Votes: 0

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now. Votes: 0

Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery. Votes: 0

This covenant energy holds and mirrors the pact that we have made of self-fulfillment for ourselves in this lifetime, and that covenant energy holds the full reflection of our promise within its framework. Votes: 0

The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that. Votes: 0

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us. Votes: 0

And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors. Votes: 0

By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ultimately, we're not the avatars we create. We're not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling. Votes: 0

Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces. Votes: 0

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had. Votes: 0

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is." Votes: 0

Playing along in the yard, The blue sky sparkles against the earthly green,Creating such harmony!A pond, nearby.Untroubled waters mirrors the ether's dreams.A grand echo of my Divine Heart!I am One Votes: 0

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable. Votes: 0

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much. Votes: 0

I reached for her through the darkness, but she was gone. Like dominoes folding over, the rest of the mirrors collapsed down on top of me. The impact caused the world around me to vanish. Votes: 0

The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are. Votes: 0

There is a double rhythm in all human beings. We are binary beings - two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears. Two legs for walking. And the heartbeat thumping in our chest mirrors that. Votes: 0

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. Votes: 0

I have tried a little kinky stuff. A woman called me and said, 'I have mirrors all over my bedroom. Bring a bottle.' I brought Windex. Votes: -1