Mirrors Quotes - Page 21

• Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

  John Grierson

  Art, Hammers, Art Is

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• I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"

  Vince Gill

  Kids, Looks, Hey

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I can lip read, so I know what other people are saying about me - especially when I clock them in my rear view mirror.

  Max Beesley

  Views, People, Lips

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me an actor was getting to come backstage and dressing room mirrors with bulbs around them and trying on people's costumes. It was very exciting to me as a child.

  Phoebe Fox

  Children, People, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

  Josh Billings

  Love Is, Broken, Ends

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Mind, Literature, Maps

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• 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.

  Peace Pilgrim

  World, Return, Ifs

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.186, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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

  Kinky Friedman

  Matter, Rearview Mirror

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.247, Macmillan

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• I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Home, Looks, Critics

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• I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Leeches, Looks, Want

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• Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

  Mariah Nelson

  Sports, Romance, Grace

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• I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'

  Chase Utley

  Running, What If, Looks

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• 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

  House, Trying, Want

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• 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.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Trying, Would Be, Looks

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• When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome

  John Wooden

  Looks, Outcomes, Do The Best

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• I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better.

  Tony Harrison

  Cousin, Crazy, Believe

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• There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Monsters, Savages

  "Question time" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

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• When someone comments on my weight, I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror and say, "This is who you are. You're okay in this lady, and you're a great, healthy, lovable and loving person." I try to accept myself.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Hard Work, Healthy, Trying

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• The basic idea is that there is this group that, over the centuries, has learned to control reincarnation. John's character stumbles into that realization, and it's a lot closer to him than he would ever have wanted to know. It's a metaphor for when you get in a fight with your significant other and you go, "Who is this?," or you look in the mirror and go, "Why did I say that?" It's the intruder. When you threw a temper tantrum at two years old, it's them.

  Glen Morgan

  Character, Fighting, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Everyone is made differently and that's what makes us beautiful and unique. I want girls to look in the mirror and feel confident.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Beautiful, Girl, Unique

  "Marie Claire Editor, readers lash out on Ashlee Simpson" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. March 08, 2006.

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• [H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.

  Alan Caruba

  Dark, Views, Trouble

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

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Dog, Reflection, Smell

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• When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

  Simon Munnery

  Suits You, Clothes, Despair

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• I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Looks, Able, Rooms

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• Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting places I've been, phases I've been through, people I've loved or thought I did.

  Mary Schmich

  Book, Sight, People

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