#mirrors

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet. ↗

— Chris Brown

#around #dream #fun #having #i

I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#find #great #hairspray #i #lipstick

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties. ↗

— Aberjhani

#human-nature #humanity #identity #mirrors #personal-identity

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. ↗

— David Joseph Schwartz

#act #attitudes #how #mind #mirrors

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

You're an intensely attractive woman. You do know that, don't you?" To her silence, he replied, "You'd believe me if you could see yourself." "I have seen myself. That's the snag, you see." He shook his head. "No, no. Not in a mirror. I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my eyes for just an instant...There's only beauty. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#perception #beauty

She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted one night and, another night, BE MYSTERIOUS! Some nights later, she scribbled: WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK, YOU LOSE THE POINT. ↗

— Angela Carter

#desire #dreams #lipstick #messages #mirrors

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#his #however #individual #individuation #laws

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. ↗

— Joan Didion

#been #course #flawless #great #hotels

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#alone #anyway #because #being #being alone