Mirror Quotes

• These were my people; cells in my best image; my negation and deletion. In seeing them, I named them, and they began to spurt. She leaned with her whole life to kiss me. I was awake again and so was Darrel, the most awake we’d ever been. I walked through the kitchen over the piles of sleeping or prone pleased bodies to pretend I could see out through the mirror over the window to the flat backyard.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Kiss
  • Image
  • Deletion

• There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • People
  • Mirror

• Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.

  

  Carter Ratcliff
  • Book
  • Yourself
  • Box

• I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn't doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Work
  • Promise
  • Season

• I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!

  

  Swoosie Kurtz
  • Look
  • Angle
  • Tony

• Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

  

  Bernie Glassman
  • Practice
  • Laugh
  • Wake Up

• I once looked in the mirror at myself and noticed that, without a doubt, I am a sexy man. In fact, I don't think I'll ever get married...it just wouldn't be fair for my spouse to catch me enjoying a look in the mirror more than having sex with her.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Doubt

• Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

  

  El Lissitzky
  • Photography
  • Mirror
  • Consciousness

• And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Mirror
  • Riding
  • Knights

• The lack of self-awareness in victims of chronic childhood trauma is sometimes so profound that they cannot recognize themselves in a mirror. Brain scans show that this is not the result of mere inattention: The structures in charge of self-recognition may be knocked out along with the structures related to self-experience.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Victims
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Self-recognition

• Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Mirror

• 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.

  

  Rumi
  • God
  • Truth
  • Broke

• I went to see my doctor... Doctor Vidi-boom-ba. Yeah...I told him once, "Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror I feel like throwing up. What's wrong with me?" He said, "I don't know, but your eyesight is perfect."

  

  Jack Roy
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• At the gym, men are just as self conscious and check themselves out in the mirror just as much as women do. In regards to cooking, men can do more than BBQ. All you need to do is ask—but be sure to do it after the game! Oh, and, men do like salads, especially if they are topped off with bacon!

  

  Chuck Hughes
  • Men
  • Cooking
  • More

• When I come home, I always look in the mirror and I want to see where I could do better, where I can improve.

  

  Nemanja Matic
  • Better
  • Mirror
  • Improve

• Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.

  

  Michael Oren
  • American
  • Tendency
  • Eastern

• I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Mirror

• I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Mind
  • Picture
  • Mirror

• I spent quite a lot of time in front of the bathroom mirror. Nearby, there was a stack of books. My favorites were 'The Death of Manolete' and the cartoons of Charles Addams. I would pretend to be Morticia Addams. I was drawn to her. I used to pull my eyes back and see how I'd look with slanted eyelids.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • Time
  • Death
  • Eyes

• If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sad

• Shift your perspective ... customize a mirror quote to inspire!

  

  Bobbie Thomas
  • Inspire
  • Quote
  • Shift

• I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Actors
  • Mirror
  • Marry

• They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mirror
  • Changes
  • Reflecting

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