Quotes of: Smoke-and-mirrors Keyword

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Traditional

Your best mirror is someone more beautiful than you.

Chinese

However, you cannot force smokers to stop, and although all smokers secretly want to, until they are ready to do so a pact just creates additional pressure, which increases their desire to smoke. This turns them into secret smokers, which further inc...

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Be a Happy Non-smoker for the Rest of Your Life

The mirror had no power. The mirror was just a piece of silvered glass; the enchantment was all in me.

Entanglement

Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings

The Gilded Mirror: Constantinople

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

Between a Heart and a Rock Place

Whatever we know as children, this is the world, eaten whole and without question.

The Mirrored World

Dreams be the speech of thy soul. Listen.

The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Mirrors Shadow

The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.

Shakti Gawain

Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could at least kiss himself, and I stared in to the mirror, conjuring up the memory of the couple in the film. I couldn't get the image of their lips ...

The Black Book

I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They fed into each other, so it was best to quell such thoughts before they gathered strength.

Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year

Put the number seven in front of a mirror and what do you have? If you answered 77, then perhaps you talk to yourself in the mirror, and wait for a response from your reflection. Seven standing in front of a mirror equals seven. Two plus two equals y...

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Clouds do not always mean rain, but smoke is a sure sign of fire.

African

The smoke of my own house is better than another man's fire.

Italian

Érase una vez un ángel y un demonio que se enamoraron. Pero su historia no tuvo un final feliz

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

By Blood We Live