Mirrors Quotes

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

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.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

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.

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

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.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

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.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.