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 The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. - Dean Acheson Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. - Diane Ackerman Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind. - Aeschylus Speech is the mirror of the soul. - Publilius Syrus I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and s...

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. - Sherman Alexie Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered. - Janet Evanovich She loves swimming," said Ellen, who I knew had been a competitive swimmer in college. Ellen looked in the rearview mirror at Kara. "Don't you Kara?" asked Ellen. There was no response. "I didn't start until I was three," said Ellen. "She's got a two year start on me. - Daniel Amory She glanced in the rearview mirror, as if she might see Mouse sitting up instead of lying flat. "I can't imagine Blake living through the night," she confessed. "If you can see him from where you are right now, tell him Livia did a good job. - Debra Anastasia We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. - M...

Hello, beautiful Livia," Blake answered. "How did you know it was me?" Livia saw her wide smile in the rear view mirror. "The phone looked sexier when it rang. - Debra Anastasia She held her breath as it stopped ringing and connected. "Hello, beautiful Livia," Blake answered. "How did you know it was me?" Livia saw her wide smile in the rear view mirror. "The phone looked sexier when it rang." She could hear a matching smile in his voice and sighed. Livia hugged herself with her free arm. Just the sound of him made her skin beg to be touched. - Debra Anastasia We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. - Marshall Mcluhan And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion. - Reba Mcentire We all have something in our rear view mirro...

Admiring yourself?" The Inquisitor's voice but through his reverie. "You wont look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you." "You do seem obsessed with my looks." Jace turned away from the mirror with some relief. "Could it be that all this is because you're attracted to me? - Cassandra Clare I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV. - Lacey Chabert And after, when it was bedtime, I would sing, "We love you, Conrad, oh yes we do. We love you, Conrad, and we'll be true" into the bathroom mirror with a mouthful of toothpaste. I would sing my eight-nine-ten-year-old heart out. But I wasn't singing to Conrad Birdie. I was singing to my Conrad. Conrad Beck Fisher, the boy of my preteen dreams. - Jenny Han I play songs that have only the pattern of my self in them and you hum along suporting me. You a...

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power. - Chuck Palahniuk Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the dumbest of you all? - Anne Robinson

I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this. - Lance Bass I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. - Jim Carrey I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having. - Robbie Coltrane I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it! - Ani Difranco Do you mind?" she asked. "Mind what?" "While you were looking in the mirror I couldn't help myself and I began fantasizing about you. And I figured if I was going to continue to fantasize about you, the only polite thing to do was to ask y...

Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror. - Sarah Dessen Sometimes we can't see what's right in front of us, because it's behind us, and we're looking in a mirror. - Jarod Kintz I looked him in the eyes and said, "I don't trust you." I'll tell you, it's like looking in a mirror when you make eye contact with your clone. - Jarod Kintz When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible. - Claudio Reyna The kid's driving me bat-shi...

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. - Diane Ackerman I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart. - Cecelia Ahern The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it. - Jodi Picoult Look, girls know when they're cute," he said. "You don't have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn't have a job. I was like, 'How are you going to get a job there...

Why bother trying? What was the point? So I could go to some suck-ass college, get a diploma, march out into a job that I hated, marry a pretty girl who would want to divorce me, but then she wouldn't because we'd have kids, so instead she'd be the angry woman at the other end of the kitchen table, and the kids would grow up watching this, until one day I'd look at my son and he'd look just like that face in the bathroom mirror? If that was life, then it was twisted. - Laurie Halse Anderson Mr. Babcock pats my shoulder. He smiles, and the caterpillar mustache the envy of state troopers everywhere, I'm sure straightens out again. I hear that on the weekends, he's a part-time security guard with mirrored sunglasses and a gun. He probably poses in front of his bathroom mirror to see how he looks saying Freeze! - Libba Bray I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're ...