Quotes of: Smoke-and-mirrors Keyword

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.

Jason Statham

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

Wallace Shawn

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Franz Grillparzer

For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot.

Robbie Jones

Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with - to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.

Steven Bochco

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Steven Wright

I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

Allan Hamilton

When I see you, I think "I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror.

C. JoyBell C.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Clare Boothe Luce

A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Clare Boothe Luce

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

Eugene Cernan

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

Billy Gibbons

Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying." A Change Is Gonna Come

B.J. Neblett

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. What matters is you can look in the mirror, and love who you see.

B. Dave Walters

There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves

Darius Bolton

It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'

Donald Driver

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

John Lydon

I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!

L'Wren Scott

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

Brian Clough

I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

Robert Stack

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

Heather Locklear