Mirrors Quotes - Page 40

• I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Machines

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• I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.

  J. K. Rowling

  Spirit, Loud, Said

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• I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Moving, Eye

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “The Hanged Man”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Men, Cheesy, Magic

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

  Mitch Albom

  People, Giving, Car

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.128, Broadway Books

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• Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.

  Jacques Rigaut

  Roles, Looks, Criminal Mind

  Jacques Rigaut (1993). “Lord Patchogue & Other Texts”

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• I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating the self — our achievements, our experiences, our existence. Imagine what it would be like to look into the mirror and say, as God taught us, "That's good.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Self, Taught Us, Joy

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• Including a mention of your impressive record....The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand techniques.. Kakashi the mirror ninja.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Men, Technique, Records

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• Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Opportunity, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 16, 2013

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• The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Race, Idols

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror. "Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girlfriend, Hair, Color

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• Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,-- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!" If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?

  William Carlos Williams

  Baby, Lonely, Sleep

  "Danse Russe" l. 18 (1917)

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• Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors

  Alejandra Pizarnik

  Blood, Lust, Earth

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• Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?

  Rumi

  Stories, Body, Earth

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• The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.

  Edith Wharton

  August, Cities, White

  Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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• Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

  Charlaine Harris

  Reflection, Thinking, World

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.872, Penguin

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• Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

  Washington Irving

  Happiness, Light, Glowing

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.148, Penguin

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• Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.71, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Cousin, Party, Clouds

  Simone de Beauvoir (2016). “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Wedding, Dark, Perfect Days

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• Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Return, Greetings

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• How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?

  Michelle Tea

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  Michelle Tea (2007). “The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America”, Semiotext

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• You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Book

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