Mirror Quotes - page 8

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people. (Chris Sarandon)
If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature. View quote
Clare Balding
And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. View quote
Cleo Moore
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. View quote
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror. View quote
David Alan Grier
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful. View quote
David Chipperfield
The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens. View quote
David Krumholtz
Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens. View quote
David Krumholtz
The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true. View quote
Dan Chaon
I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. View quote
Dennis Farina
Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today. (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)
I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror! View quote
Dave Sitek
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite. View quote
Elizabeth Fishel
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. View quote
Ernest Holmes
Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri. View quote
F. Murray Abraham
Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. View quote
Fred Upton
We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life. View quote
George Wald
I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection. View quote
Gene Tierney
Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?' View quote
Hill Harper
When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body. View quote
Heather Locklear
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. (Jane Porter)
Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition. View quote
Janet McTeer
As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away. View quote
Joanne Froggatt
I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you. View quote
John Candy
In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive. View quote
John Scott