Mirrors Quotes - Page 28

• Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.

  Joe Vitale

  Love, Trying, Faces

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

  John Piper

  Paradise, Majesty, Halls

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• But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fashion, Past, Years

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• I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

  Matthew Fox

  Change, Stupid, East

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• I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

  Ashley Olsen

  Men, Body, Too Much

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• As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

  Meat Loaf

  Reflection, People, Vampire

  "What I see in the mirror: Meat Loaf". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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

  Jim Morrison

  Two, Swim, Way

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Lying, Ordinary, Creation

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.157, Vintage

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• In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Crazy, Three

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America

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• I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Lovers

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• Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Snakes

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• I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

  Richard Lewis

  Funny, Humor, Views

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• My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.

  Andre Dubus

  Dream, Writing, Black And White

  Source: thekingsenglish.wordpress.com

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• When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.

  Colin Firth

  Mother, Dad, Looks

  "And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.

  Marion Cotillard

  Thinking, Dialect Coach, Different

  "Public Enemies - Marion Cotillard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think that there are so many women who understand nothing about clothes and they should try and understand themselves before they start putting on disguises: they should stand in front of the mirror for a day, two days or three, and find out what they have which is beautiful, interesting: what they should show: hair, neck, arms, or hands.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Beautiful, Thinking, Hair

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?"

  Sam Mendes

  Children, Thinking, Grandparent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Peter Hinwood found all these old pictures - Polaroids - and when I saw them, I just didn't believe that the person in them was connected with me. I was in a hotel room with one of those front-and-back mirrors, and I thought, Who the hell is that? I used to be thin as a rake. I used to have the nice-shaped pecs. It's sad. No, it's not sad, it's the reality, and I've accepted this now.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Nice, Believe, Reality

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.

  Patrice Leconte

  Writing, Years, Drawing

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think that everything in the world around us is a reflection of what is going on inside of us. So each of us as an individual creates a life - we draw to us certain people and events and circumstances that reflect what's going on inside of us, so we can literally look at our life and see a mirror of our own consciousness. And if that's true on an individual level, it's also true that what's going on in the world in a bigger way is a reflection of the collective consciousness.

  Shakti Gawain

  Reflection, Thinking, People

  "An Interview with Shakti Gawain about Transformation, Locally and Globally". Lotus Guide Interview, www.lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend.

  George A. Sheehan

  Self, Made, Reader

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• The only person I can change is the one in the mirror.

  Russell Wilson

  Persons, I Can

  "Russell Wilson Launches ‘Pass The Peace’ Campaign To Help Domestic Violence Victims" by Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Real, Men, Data

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• The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Running, Wall, Causes

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at the same time, a sign of joy and contentment with that moment, perhaps even a mirror of the equlibrium in your inner spirit, a mirror of a liberated state of mind.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Joy, Mind, Contentment

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