#mirror

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' ↗

— Pete Townshend

#called #elegance #felt #holding #i

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life. ↗

— George Wald

#body #chasing #fallen #identity #keep

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#emotionally #horses #mirror #who #you

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#deepest #dreams #experiences #expression #form

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#asking #because #cheesy #hard #i

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.' ↗

— Al Yankovic

#bathroom #consciously #fantasies #going #had

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#contradiction #discovered #during #effect #exposed

If the best of friends are those who reflect you, nothing helps your popularity like being secluded in a house of mirrors. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #mirrors #reclusiveness #friendship

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn’t it? Everything else is artful. ↗

— Angela Carter

#flesh-and-the-mirror #art

...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ... ↗

— John Geddes

#interior-dialogue #mirror-to-nature #refracting #shakespeare #writing-process