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Quotes About Mirror

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.
~ Henry Louis Gates
The next time you check your moves in the mirror and reflect on how special you are, consider that somewhere in this universe or in another parallel universe, your double might be doing the same. This would be the ultimate Copernican Revolution. Not only are we not special, we could be infinitely ordinary.
~ Seth Shostak
Women strive to be the change they want to see in the mirror.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.
~ AVA., you are safe here.
love is my thighs, this belly, my eyes.love is my speech, the search, my cry.love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.
~ Ava, You Are Safe Here.
Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with - to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.
~ Steven Bochco
I was shy at dancing. I practice at home. I was practicing in the mirror. Dancing everywhere. Then I just started feeling good. I started feeling coordinated. I started feeling the music better.
~ Rob Gronkowski
The Scripture is a mirror to show us our sins; Christ's blood is a fountain to wash them away.
~ Thomas Watson (c. 1620-1686)
That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror.
~ Cedric Bixler-Zavala
You can look in the mirror and try to hide it and cover it up, and it may work here or there, but there ain't no shirt or hat you can put on or haircut you can get to hide the fact that you're morbidly obese.
~ Paul Wall
Al escribir historia me refiero a la general o universal. No hay otra: lo que se llama historia patria es espejo del hombre -y entonces es también universal- o es una anécdota de sobremesa.
~ Octavio Paz
Their sense of likeness astonished them. It resembled magic. They felt themselves held in a spellbound condition which they feared to injure. Although she could not pin down any overt point of resemblance, Harriet at times imagined he was the person most like her in the world, her mirror image.
~ Olivia Manning
why humanity has a spiritual need for a mirror (a custom-built mirror!) such as the novel.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The world is a looking-glass which flings back to us the reflection of ourselves. If we laugh it laughs back at us. If we shed tears, it reflects a sorrowful face.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The world is a whispering gallery which sends back the echo of our own voice. It is a mirror which reflects the face that looks in it. If we laugh, it laughs back; if we frown, it reflects a frown.
~ Orison Swett Marden
How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.
~ Oscar Wilde
They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In die schmutzigen Decken gehüllt, gingen sie durch die Straßen. Er hielt den Revolver auf Hüfthöhe und den Jungen bei der Hand. AM anderen Ende der Stadt stießen sie auf ein für sich stehendes Haus auf einer Wiese und gingen durch sämtliche Zimmer. Sie trafen auf sich selbst in einem Spiegel, und er hätte beinahe den Revolver gehoben. Das sind wir Papa, flüsterte der Junge. Das sind wir.
~ Cormac McCarthy
A mirror hung between the shelves. Clara stepped in front of it and let her fingers run over the silver roses that covered the frame. She had never seen anything so beautiful. The glass they surrounded was dark, as if the night had spilled onto it. It was misted up, and right where she saw the reflection of her face was the imprint of a hand.
~ Cornelia Funke
Sie wird eine Füchsin zur Mutter haben und einen Vater, der aus einer anderer Welt stammt und den Namen Reckless zu Recht trägt. All deine Spiegel werden zerspringen und sie wird dein wahres Gesicht kennen.
~ Cornelia Funke
Drood Commander, watching Xar in the mirror. 'He said: "Everything Open,"' said Encanzo. The smug smile was instantly wiped off the Drood Commander's face
~ Cressida Cowell
Come here, and let me pin them in for you. He arranged them two or three at a time in the bosom of her dress, stepping back now and then to see the effect. You know, he said, taking the pin out of his mouth, a woman ought always to arrange her flowers before her glass. Miriam laughed. She thought flowers ought to be pinned in one's dress without any care. That Paul should take pains to fix her flowers for her was his whim.
~ D.H. Lawrence
When he emerged, I'd stand on the stool amidst the steam and the aroma of uncapped Old Spice, watching my face wobble and drip in the medicine cabinet mirror.
~ Wally Lamb
A left-hander, Leonardo wrote from right to left on a page
~ Walter Isaacson