The Mirror Quotes
Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men
It's funny, the very things I needed to learn are the things I was trying to teach you.
Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life.
I leaned over the sink, closer to my reflection, and stare at myself hard. I don't know what I see. I don't even know what I want to see.
You are a mirror of yourself in others. Whatever you want, give. Be the best reflection of yourself.
Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.
...that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...
Me father always said if ya can find a lass who's brilliant in the kitchen and in the bed ya best not let her go.
It's like you're a mirror and you show me who I want to be, instead of who I am.
I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.
Live in a cosmic ocean, singing sweet hallucinations, dreams of many worlds, all flowing into one.... inner / outer mirrored love.
Sometimes I found it hard to believe that the person in the mirror was me.
I see that you, like many before you. The happiest person on earth would look in the mirror and see only himself exactly as he is.
Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?""No sir.""That bothers me.
You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when it's gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.
There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.
I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'
Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time they also create it.
Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.
I've worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad.
We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans, ' and smile.