Quotes tagged ‘Mirrors’

(15 total)

“Check your side mirror, check your rearview mirror, check the backseat for murders.”

— Rebecca Hoobler, Eddie Quintana, Sara Scully, Annie, Amy Poehler, imdb.com

“It's good to make art with mirrors so I can check my hair.”

“Messenger: How do I look? There are no mirrors on this side. Adam: Fine, you look fine. Messenger: Yeah? Barbara: Fine. Messenger: Thanks, I've been feeling a little flat. [he laughs and goes through the crevice in the filing room]”

— Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren, Messenger, Carmen Filpi, imdb.com

“Yes, look in the mirror. What do you see? Is it a dream, or a nightmare? Are we being introduced against our will? Are they mirrors?”

— Robert Engels, Log Lady, Catherine E. Coulson, imdb.com

“My dad once told me that life is a trick done with mirrors. You look at something from one direction, it looks like one thing; you turn it over, it looks like something else. I guess he was right. Sometimes it's hard to tell who's a real friend, and who's just an illusion in glass.”

— J. Rickley Dumm, imdb.com

“I was getting into a shower in a hotel, and it was one of these hotel bathrooms where there’s just mirrors everywhere. And as I was stepping in the shower, I looked, and I was like, ‘oh, my god.’ Like, ‘look at you. I can’t believe somebody lets you fuck them. This is crazy.’”

— Tom Segura, scrapsfromtheloft.com

“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”

— Jacques Lacan, amazon.com

“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”

— Kristin Hannah, amazon.com

“At home by yourself tonight? Just look closely in the background of any mirror. You are most certainly not alone.”

— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com

“Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.”

— Maggie Nelson, amazon.com

“Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.”

— Garth Stein, amazon.com

“I’m starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“A book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out.”

— George Lichtenberg, amazon.com

“There are so many things Blair doesn’t get about me, so many things she ultimately overlooked, and things that she would never know, and there would be a distance between us because there were too many shadows everywhere. Had she ever made promises to a faithless reflection in the mirror? The fades,…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Clay Easton, amazon.com