Mirrors Quotes - Page 38

• In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.

  Ricky Williams

  Therapy

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• An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

  Debra Winger

  Hair, Half, Costumes

  "Why I quit Hollywood". Interview with Garth Pearce, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2002.

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• When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.

  Robert Winston

  Disappointment, Self, Portraits

  "What I See in the Mirror: Robert Winston". www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

  James Wolcott

  Fun, Reflection, Class

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• I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

  Steven Wright

  Teaching, Thinking, People

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• I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

  Al Yankovic

  Stars, Rocks, Singing

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• Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.

  Regina Brett

  Catholic, Challenges, Church

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• If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

  Gerard Way

  Music, Hands, Looks

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• And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Wall, Glasses, Greed

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Suicide, Distance, Self Harm

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Shadow, Might

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.655

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• That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that - but that they insist every word and deed mirror that ice. They never learn the beauty or value of gesture. The emotional necessity. For them, it is all honesty before kindness, truth before art. Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.

  Lorrie Moore

  Art, Honesty, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 04, 2011

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• Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

  David Brin

  Inspirational, Life, People

  David Brin (2013). “Exiles: The Uplift Storm Trilogy”, p.262, Hachette UK

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• To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.

  Sharon G. Flake

  Ideas, Looks

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• You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

  John Irving

  Eye, Views, Grace

  John Irving (1996). “Trying to Save Piggy Sneed”, p.341, Arcade Publishing

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• Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

  Derek Walcott

  Heart, Wine, Doors

  Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan

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• You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

  Jean Rhys

  Thinking, Imagine, Truth Is

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• Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.

  Tom Stoppard

  Plato, Past, Creation

  Tom Stoppard (1998). “The Invention of Love”, p.95, Grove Press

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• The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of any kind When all there can be is mindless mirrors Laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream

  Thomas Ligotti

  Dream, Wind, Laughing

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• The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.

  Anais Nin

  Fall, Glasses, Voice

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• The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.

  Ani DiFranco

  Eye, Looks, Stuff

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• To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Eye, Reflection

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 29, 2016

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

  Steven Wright

  House, Tape, Dimensions

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• Books are the mirrors of the soul.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1835, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Milan Kundera

  Names, Giving, Littles

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