Smoke Mirror Quotes

#1. As fire is covered by smoke, mirror by dust, and embryo by amnion, so is knowledge covered by desire.

Shweta Chandra

#2. I am not surprised of your goodbye, breaking heart and leaving behind; maybe these are what angels do for fun.

M.F. Moonzajer

#3. Rita was almost as badly damaged as I am.

Jeff Lindsay

#4. Arafat was a barrier to peace.

Chuck Schumer

#5. People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

Barack Obama

#6. I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie

America Ferrera

#7. The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.

Anais Nin

#8. So if you feel resistance about executing a certain ending, figure out what two or more desires are in conflict, admit to yourself that you can have only one, and then ask yourself this question: Which one am I willing to give up to have the other one?

Henry Cloud

#9. But you can enjoy my next announcement. As soon as I am back at my office I will start preparing something new that I can show.

Eiji Aonuma

#10. A naked dog for a naked lady.

Gypsy Rose Lee

#11. Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues
when they have girls to manage

Louisa May Alcott

#12. War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.

Erwin Rommel

#13. communicating fully and openly, by not withholding or misleading. There is no doubt that our decision-making is better if we are able to draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group. But as valuable as the information is

Ed Catmull

#14. I would certainly spank my mom.

Jose Medina

#15. Decide first what is authentic,then go after it with all your heart.

Louise Erdrich

#16. He also saw that matter is a mirror - everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that light - and the world of illusion, the Dream, is just like smoke which doesn't allow us to see what we really are. "The real us is pure love, pure light," he said.

Miguel Ruiz

#17. I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with smoke and mirrors.

Charlize Theron

#18. All is clouded by desire: as fire by smoke, as a mirror by dust ...Through these it blinds the soul.

Christopher J. Koch

#19. The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind ... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

Laura Riding