#mirrors

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

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. ↗

— Aberjhani

#art-and-the-soul #creative-genius #creativity #famous-quotes-by-famous-poets #mirrors

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#mirrors #narcissism #technology #love

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#i love #love #mirrors #pass #surface

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#i #knows #lord #mirrors #more

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun. ↗

— Ali Larter

#armies #burn #cooking #dance #fun

I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord! There is not getting away from one's self ↗

— Jane Austen

#mirrors #humor

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#into #look #mirrors #only #others

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Fishel

#both #dare #hold #images #mirrors