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Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. -- Nikolai Gogol
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass. -- Francois Rabelais
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men. -- George R. R. Martin
I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real. -- Shannon Hale
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass. -- James Allen
A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself. -- Matthew Sharpe
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. -- Virginia Woolf
The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you. -- Gautama Buddha
Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day. -- George R. R. Martin
A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland. -- Ivan Sutherland
The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention. -- Idina Menzel
Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you. -- Grant Morrison
It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman. -- Gaston Bachelard
The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man. -- Indiana Lang
There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass. -- Napoleon Hill
When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it. -- John Malkovich
Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare. -- Paul Theroux
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him. -- Elizabeth Ann Seton
And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back. -- Marya Hornbacher
I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends. -- Vincent Van Gogh
From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The writing snaps, crackles, and pops with humor as Bonnie Marson makes Schubert a sexy, happening kind of guy who gives new meaning to our dreaming the impossible. -- Jonis Agee
Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of a modern home. By using them, there are no dark, gloomy corners, no drab caverns for halls. There can be a feeling of freedom, light, air, space. -- Dorothy Draper
I like to look at the glass half full. -- Abdallah II
I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.' -- Jeannette Walls
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. -- James Joyce
As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty. -- John Francis Daley
Finnegans Wake,' 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' live on my bedside table back home in London. -- Elizabeth Jagger
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. -- Jean Cocteau
Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear. -- Lily Cole
Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside. -- Neel Mukherjee
If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table? -- Brad Thor
Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that. -- Nancy Roman
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards. -- Warren Farrell
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong. -- Ira Glass
Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein. -- Ira Glass
I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.' -- Ira Glass
A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.' -- Julia Glass
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream. -- Julia Glass
Hullo"¦ the wall is a looking-glass! -- Gaston Leroux
All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass. -- Christina Rossetti
A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven. -- Ralph Cudworth
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into. -- Michel de Montaigne
Looking through the ruby glass one cannot see the true colour of the sky. -- Lara Biyuts
This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself. -- Malia Ann Haberman
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass. -- Carl Sandburg
Nothing is real or a lie, it all depends on the color of the glass you're looking through. -- Manny Trillo
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. -- Fanny Kemble
I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me! -- Edward Weston
I would rather have 10,000 stories than 10,000 in my bank account @myhumancompass Roy ('Backpack') Baron author of Looking Glass Shattered. -- Roy Backpack Baron
Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world. -- Walt Disney
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine. -- Thomas a Kempis
Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast. -- Steven Pinker
The Looking Glass- Wish it bares abides in us.It lies' just yesterday my skin glowed in it'Today it pales like it never bloomed. -- Adeosun Olamide
The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask -- Ani DiFranco
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired. -- Walter Scott
An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life. -- Terry Pratchett
It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. ... I have done nothing in that direction since. -- John Tenniel
Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face. -- Richard Whately
But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there. -- William Butler Yeats
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured. -- Jacqueline Woodson
As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour. -- Edgar Allan Poe
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; -- William Shakespeare
Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflÃ©, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day. -- Alexis Soyer
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand. -- Ralph Cudworth
Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference? -- William Morris Hunt
I'm having the weirdest sense of deja vu right now," said the green caterpiller. Duh!" said the blue caterpiller. "Do you think, just maybe, that's because you predicted this?" Oh, yeah." --The Looking Glass Wars -- Frank Beddor

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