Reflection : (507)

" I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. " - Cat Stevens

" I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. " - Winston Churchill

" I have caught my reflection and thought, ‘Oof. That girl is struggling. That girl is tired.’ I’ve had mornings where I’m like, ‘Oh God, I have weird hair.’ " - Melissa McCarthy

" I don’t know Bengali perfectly. I don’t know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I’ve always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language. " - Jhumpa Lahiri

" When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it’s not often. " - Celine Dion

" I don’t think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself. " - Tao Lin

" While I was writing ‘The Spare Room,’ I thought, ‘I’m going to look really bad in this book – there’s no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion’, and I thought, ‘I’m not going to change it. I’ll call the character ‘Helen’ and admit to those feelings.’ I think this is a reason why people write. " - Helen Garner

" ‘M Train’ is as close to knowing what I’m like as anything. I don’t know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose. " - Patti Smith

" Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms. " - Alice Munro

" I always try to think before I talk. " - Margaret Chase Smith