Mirror Quotes - page 2

Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it;) (Linus Torvalds)
It's very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror. View quote
Harold Pinter
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. View quote
Douglas Adams
We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones. View quote
Tomas Tranströmer
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun. View quote
Vitruvius
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle. View quote
Martha Graham
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault How few themselves in that just mirror see. View quote
Edward Young
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
A novel is a mirror walking down a road. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
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)
Like all of my fictions, Sinner is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice. View quote
Ted Dekker
I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me. View quote
Tracy Morgan
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him. View quote
Elizabeth Chandler
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. View quote
Christopher Lasch
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I am locked into the mirror and there is no door out. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. View quote
Earl Nightingale
To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it. View quote
Anna Sui
I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor. (Dino De Laurentiis)
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. View quote
Indra Devi
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. View quote
Mike Figgis
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. View quote
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror. View quote
Robert Stack