Quotes of: Smoke-and-mirrors Keyword

I breathe onto a mirror just to make sure I’m still alive, and to see how good looking my breath is.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

Under the Skin

I’ve found from my own experiences that the world generally gives you back what you believe about it, like a mirror reflecting our role in it.

The Virtuoso

Your partner is your deepest mirror: do not expect them to change. Healing yourself, you heal your relationship.

We are human angels

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

Wintergirls

Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

You can’t argue with a stupid, ignorant person, no matter how long you stand in the mirror.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122)

The Yoga Sutras

I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.

Anne Hathaway

If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.

Clare Balding

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Paulo Coelho

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

Delhi

Even though I am a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan, I've not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.

Peter Capaldi

I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.

Philippe Petit

Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day. You can ignore the small voice still inside you, but your reflection will always have something to say.

Ryan Lilly

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

Sylvia Earle

You ever wake up in the morning and kiss the mirror and say "HELLO BEAUTIFUL" if not you have the wrong connection with your reflection.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

You have to look in the mirror and do one of two things; love or hate who you see. So, be good to yourself - it's all the esteem you have.

Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.

Kristen Bell

I look myself in the mirror and see what I am inside. In a glimpse, I find the perfection in the imperfect evidence of the former existence.” Katia M. S.

Katia M. S.

What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.

Lou Doillon