Mirrors Quote by William Kittredge Download Open image “We continually use stories to hold up as mirrors to ourselves.” — William Kittredge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mirrors Stories Use
“Our stories are phantoms of fleeting moments reflected in mirrors.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Seeing ourselves reflected in stories gives people the courage to keep doing what they are doing or make a change. — Rachel House Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers and occasionally… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
“Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.” — Jane Davenport Platko Copy Share Image
We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to see. You… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much. — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
I want to think I deserve what I get. I don't want to consider how vastly I am overly rewarded. I don't want to… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink. — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
When they took me to do the camera test for the vampire make up, after they put the prosthetic on, I went though the… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
You mostly know that you want to be funny, know that you have the desire. It's not like people who grow up beautiful and… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.... — John B. Anderson Copy Share Image
