Quotes About Reflection

Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope.

I still find the most affecting moment on the whole record is where the last notes fade out and Rick introduces a wistful rubato line, on high notes, from 'See Emily Play'.

My report card comments for the 'Atom Heart Mother' track would be: good idea, could try harder. 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast' on the second side is a similar example.

On the bus we got to know a newly married American couple – the groom was about to head off to Vietnam, which meant little to us in 1966; the full significance only hit me later on, and I still occasionally wonder if he survived.

I went to see his show at Earls Court, and found the experience had an astonishingly depressing effect on me. The first half was made up of Floyd numbers and gave me the impression of being a (rather elderly) Peter Pan at the nursery window – that was my part being played by someone else. In retrospect this one event probably had as much to do in galvanising me as anything else. I realised I could not quite so easily let go and watch the train roll on without me.

The end of the Animals tour marked another low point. David now says that this was one period when he really felt that it might be all up for Pink Floyd. His view is that we had achieved, and sustained, the success we had originally wanted as a band, and accordingly were finding it difficult to see what more we could do.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

Great leaders do not rush to make changes because of failure.

I guess you think this is some kind of character-building exercise, too, then??" "Do you REALLY think the last thing I'm gonna do before I die is admit someone else was right??

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

I wanted to be alone, not forgotten.

It is always easier to see in another what we are uncomfortable with in ourselves.

A day of infamy. It will forever be remembered among my people as our lowest moment. Our darkest time.

Tell your friends not to think aloud Until they swallow.

nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book...

You can change things by looking," Papa said. He showed me this with a coin. "Look at it this way," Papa said, showing me the round, flat side of the coin, the one with the king's head on. "Easy to see immediately what this thing is. It's a coin! No doubt about it. But look at it this way," and he moved the coin end-on, so it seemed a thin strip of grooved silver. "Not so easy now, is it? Remember, Mhairi, things don't always come with labels on.

Who advised counting to 10? Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president of the United States. In his book entitled A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life he wrote: "When angry, count to 10 before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

All creatures are travellers. The most important journeys are the interior ones. The most important and the most hazardous.

she would always be, at the very best, a dewdrop on life's river bank.

Behind her smile, her thoughts whirred like a pole lathe, back and forth, shaving the layers.

She thrust her hands in her pockets and turned her snakestone over and over. She found it helped her think.

She mused on the words and beads for days but couldn't see the pattern. There was a piece missing.

I stood there for a long time after he bumped his way over the turf and down the track, until the smell of his exhaust had faded into the trees and soil, and I could hear nothing but the buds. The air smelled like rain.

The mirror showed a face with wild eyes and skinned-back lips, the face of a fox gone mad.