Mirrors Quotes - Page 7

• It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Light, Ideas, Spirit

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• I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

  Suzanne Vega

  Class, Feelings, Atmosphere

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• I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

  Barbra Streisand

  Trust, Noses, Enough

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• Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

  John Updike

  Change, Art, Reflection

  John Updike (1991). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

  Star Jones

  Two, Choices, One Day

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• I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Looks, Periods

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• One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

  Thomas Frank

  Writing, Principles, Way

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2011.

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• I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

  Brooke Shields

  Opposites, Weakness, Up To You

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards.

  John Sullivan Dwight

  Eye, Heaven, Might

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• In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

  Rex Brandt

  Artist, Over You, Identity

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• Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

  Sara Genn

  Art, Expression, Skills

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• Scientists tracking mirror neurons noticed that a monkey will get excited not just when holding a banana, but also when seeing someone else holding a banana.

  Sara Genn

  Neurons, Monkeys, Bananas

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• Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Powerful, Self, Light

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• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  Wallace Stevens

  New York, Stupid, Walking Away

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Self, People, Literature

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.

  Hafez

  Sweet, Children, Love You

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• When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

  Margaret Turnbull

  Women, Looks, Purses

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• Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Humility, Study

  The Daily Mail, November 1, 1990.

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• I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Mean, Like Being Alone, People

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• Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.

  David Knopfler

  Regret, Opportunity, Opposites

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• Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror. Sure is, Girlfriend." Eric grinned at me. "But are you blond all the way down?" Don't you wish you knew?" Yes," he said simply. Well, you'll just have to wonder." I am," he said. "Blond everywhere," I could tell as much from your chest hair." He raised my arm to check my armpit. "You silly women, shaving your body hair," He said, dropping my arm.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girlfriend, Silly, Hair

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”

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• Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who sees it, and whose beauty lies as much in us, and our capacity to dream.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Dream, Art, Lying

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• Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

  Michael Jackson

  Father, Dark, Everyday

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• All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

  Yahoo Serious

  Trying, Comedy, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

  Andre Breton

  Eye, Roles, Capacity

  "Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof : a Life in Letters and Documents". Book by Arshile Gorky, 2009.

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