Mirrors Quotes - Page 30

• The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Doe, Would Be

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• They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.

  Marjorie Garber

  Wise, Dog, Real

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• The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that you're living for yourself, not other people ... I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine. I don't want someone to swap out my stomach with a supermodel. I don't want dirty old men looking at me in my underwear.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Dirty, Men, People

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• The most effective mirror is definitely an previous good friend.

  George Herbert

  Good Friend

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• How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Simple, Simple Life, Forgotten

  Daphne Du Maurier, Daphne Du Maurier (Dame) (1942). “Frenchman's creek”, Sourcebooks Landmark

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• When every day became a hangover and when you look at yourself in the mirror and go 'I don't like how you're coming across to people.' and when every day just started to feel the same. After the 50th shag, it doesn't mean so much anymore.

  Brian Molko

  Hangover, Mean, People

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• Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by ivory-tower types engaging in pure thought. They are answered by people who are willing to get down into the trenches and grapple with nature. If that means casting your own telescope mirrors, as Herschel did, so be it.

  James Trefil

  Mean, Ivory Tower, People

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• Mirrors can't talk. Luckily for you, they can't laugh either.

  Jane Wagner

  Laughing

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

  Marshall Fishwick

  Hero, Men, Way

  Marshall William Fishwick (1969). “The hero, American style”

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• I don't love balls and sleeping beauties, that kind of thing. I think the great thing about 'Snow White' is those images have scarred me since I was a child with the Queen, the mirror, the taking of the heart, the huntsman and the enchanted forest.

  Rupert Sanders

  Queens, Children, Heart

  Source: screenrant.com

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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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• Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Regret, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary.

  Neil Young

  Steps, Stage, Get Away

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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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• 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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• ...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant of, willing or unwilling depending on his degree of awakeness. The photograph, then, is a message more than a mirror, and the mans a messenger who happens to be a photographer.

  Minor White

  Men, Vision, Degrees

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• When you look at yourself and feel dissatisfaction about any part of you, you will continue to attract feelings of dissatisfaction, because the law mirrors back to you exactly what you are holding inside. Be in awe and wonder at the magnificence of you!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law, Awe And Wonder, Feelings

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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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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• A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Exercise, People

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• Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or what he later calls the super-ego. And that can be lacerated - if you think of the anorexic who sees themselves from the perspective of the image they have, of the image they have of themselves in the mirror which is false - that would be the super-ego. Super-ego is what generates depression and it is what has to be dealt with in psychoanalysis.

  Simon Critchley

  Thinking, Perspective, Ego

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• Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude.

  Earl Nightingale

  Attitude, Reflection, Our World

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• There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal,' the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Reality, Glasses

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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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• I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still got teeth and hair and I look cool when I look in the mirror, then I'll do it.

  DJ Quik

  Hair, Long, Teeth

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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