Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

- Edward Gibbon

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

- Hayley Mills

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

- Guy Finley

I would say that my downswing mirrors the path of my backswing pretty closely.

- Fred Funk

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

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- Eugene O'Neill

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- Eugene O'Neill

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

- Edmund S. Muskie

I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not?

- Erin Morgenstern

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

- Erica Jong

People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We live in homes with mirrors.

- Al Roker

I'm a serial renovator of apartments and old houses, so I'm in daily need of doorknobs, subway tiles, and 14-foot-tall pier mirrors.

- Donald Baechler

We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.

- Chris Abani

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

- Claude Chabrol

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

- Christina Ricci

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

- Chuck Close

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

- Bruce Babbitt

I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.

- Bootsy Collins

I speed up past mirrors.

- Bill Nighy

My system works, as long as people let me do my job my way. It is not just the sequence, it is how you do it: the timing, the mirrors, the temperature, the carpet. But if people only do it 99% right, it is 100% wrong. When someone tries to mess with it, the people won't get the yoga benefits.

- Bikram Choudhury