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"In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there."
"Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . ."
"One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way."
"I always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through."
"A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not."
"Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man."
"I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine."
"We are the mirror - As well as the face in it."
"Oh lord, it's hard to be humble when your perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, cause I get better looking each day."
"I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along."
"Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image."
"As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear, how much more are the mental faculties! The mind of the sage is the mirror of heaven and earth in which all things are reflected."
"The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror."
"It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
"It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart."
"Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror."
"I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror."
"Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open."
"Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror."
"The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him."
