Mirrors Quotes - Page 33

• ... all of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As far as I'm concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?

  David Wojnarowicz

  Exactly Is, World, Body

  David Wojnarowicz (2014). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• Today I saw a guy who looked like me in a funhouse mirror. He looked at me like, Hey, that's how I look reflected in the pond!

  Dana Gould

  Guy, Ponds, Looks

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

  Dov Davidoff

  Men, Gym

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 21, 2011

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• 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.

  Dov Davidoff

  House, Mind, Exit

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Oct 20, 2011

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• Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.

  Gail Buckley

  White, Mirror Image

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• 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.

  Peter C Bunnell

  Memories, Way, Photograph

  Peter C. Bunnell (2006). “Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography”, Aperture

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• Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.

  Mario Giacomelli

  Sadness, Land, Trying

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• To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.

  Eikoh Hosoe

  Photography, Self, Expression

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• I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.

  Willy Ronis

  People, Novelty, Typical

  Peter Hamilton, Willy Ronis, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1995). “Willy Ronis: photographs, 1926-1995”

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• Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.

  Bert Stern

  Clothes, Cameras, Fronts

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• Perhaps one day you'll look in the mirror and realize, the person you see appearing in awareness is actually awareness itself - momentarily appearing as a person.

  Matthew Kahn

  One Day, Looks, Realizing

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• 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. Probably even more so than the Brazilian flavor, there's an African, South African and West African influence and on a couple of other tracks there's some Latin flavor and there's some Indian tables on one track, all centered around my jazz guitar and acoustic guitars, and very much a Lee Ritenour sound.

  Lee Ritenour

  Country, Couple, Latin

  "'Jazz Monthly Feature Interview' Lee Ritenour". Interview with Baldwin "Smitty" Smith, jazzmonthly.com. October 2006.

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• Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

  Justin Hayward

  Looks, Earth, Wonder

  Song: The Lights Are Low, Album: Moving Mountains

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• My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Hypocrisy, Hawthorne

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If having true love and love that is expressive and free outside of work affects a project where you have to be restrained and in denial and fixed and closed off. This doesn't mean you go out and just destroy your love outside of your life and kind of mirror your movie.

  Heath Ledger

  Mean, And Love, Denial

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your leather pants on and sing it in front of people; that's OK. But if you put your leather pants on and stand in front of the mirror and go, "Ok, I've got to write a song to fit these pants," then you're in trouble.

  John Rzeznik

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap, or the person people think I am.

  Luke Goss

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "What I see in the mirror" by Luke Goss, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jim Carrey

  Light, Shining, Film

  Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014..

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• I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed

  Robert Breault

  Left Handed, Left, Fellows

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• Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

  Mark Cuban

  Everyday, Looks, Wake Up

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• I don't look at myself in the mirror. I'll flash past a mirror in the morning to check how I'm dressed, that's it.

  Elle Macpherson

  Morning, Past, Looks

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• In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this: In studying any object with the microscope we use different lenses and turn the mirror in various ways; each change brings out some new wonder and beauty. So it is for those who are not Greek or Hebrew scholars, and who use the work of scholars to open the meaning of the exhaustible Word-the Bible is richer than any single version can fully show.

  Amy Carmichael

  Greek, Different, Lenses

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• The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.

  Jane Yolen

  Dark, Light, Two

  Jane Yolen (1981). “Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood”, Philomel

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• I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war, ... but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.

  John McCain

  War, Looks, Want

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• Mirror the reader to himself and then show him afterward how your product fits his needs.

  Raymond Rubicam

  Needs, Fit, Reader

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