Quotes by Mirrors The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there. Ernest Hemingway mirrorsdrinkingideas I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition. Eve Arnold mirrorspeopleworld Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. Evita Peron shadowmirrorssun In each mirror, each moment A new face reveals His beauty. Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi mirrorsspiritualfaces Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock. Federico Garcia Lorca applesrocksmirrors There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. F. Scott Fitzgerald mirrorseyepeople The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. Fernando Pessoa inventormirrorsheart Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind? F. Scott Fitzgerald sadnessmirrorseye Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable. Florida Scott-Maxwell flamesmirrorseye I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day. Fiona Apple hatemirrorshouse I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror. Forest Whitaker excuse-youmirrorscharacter Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes. Fernando Pessoa mirrorseyemen That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world. Fernando Pessoa diversitywallmirrors God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. Fernando Pessoa mirrorsseasky Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me! Fernando Pessoa piecesmirrorsbroken The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have. Francesca Lia Block girlmirrorsreflection The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. Francis Bacon objectivitymirrorshumility I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that. Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire mirrorsageyears If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and cotton candy hair; if Los Angeles is this woman, then the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister. The teenybopper sister snaps bug stretchy pink bubbles over her tongue and checks her lipgloss in the rearview mirror, . . . Teeny plays the radio too loud and bites her nails, wondering if the glitter polish will poison her. Francesca Lia Block mirrorshairheart The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. Francis Bacon mirrorsracemen«2526272829303132333435»
