Rear View Quotes

• Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mirrors, Views, Perspective

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• Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear.

  Stewart Francis

  Dad, Mirrors, Views

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• In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.

  Roger Waters

  Thinking, Mirrors, Views

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• You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking.

  Bill Joy

  Thinking, Mirrors, Views

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• If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

  Jim Steinman

  Funny Life, Mirrors, Views

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• I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!

  Dave Sitek

  Sunset, Mirrors, Views

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• See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Home, Past

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• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Insperational, Mirrors

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• We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Future, Mirrors, Human Nature

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• The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.

  David Lee

  Mirrors, Views, Car

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• The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Past, Mirrors, Views

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• We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Change, Mirrors, Views

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

  Dudley Moore

  Views, Mirrors, Safety

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• When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.

  Sharon Stone

  Mirrors, Feet, Long

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• Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

  Fred Upton

  Mirrors, Yesterday, Allies

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• I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

  Ashley Olsen

  Men, Mirrors, Body

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• My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Mean, Mirrors

  "All rage and heart". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

  David Schwimmer

  Mirrors, Car, Guy

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• The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mirrors, Views, Old Things

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• When I listen to candidates spend all their time attacking Barack Obama, I'm glad they're not driving this bus because they'd be looking through the rear-view mirror. I look through the windshield at the road ahead.

  John Kasich

  Mirrors, Views, Looks

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• 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

  Brother, Airports, Mirrors

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• Is it a bad sign when you see the person you're dating and get the same feeling as if you just saw police lights in you're rear view mirror?

  Dov Davidoff

  Mirrors, Light, Views

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jan 27, 2012

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• I was in front of an ambulance the other day, and I noticed that the word ambulance was spelled in reverse print on the hood of the ambulance. And I thought, Well, isn't that clever. I look in the rear-view mirror; I can read the word ambulance behind me. Of course while you're reading, you don't see where you're going, you crash. You need an ambulance. I think they're trying to drum up some business on the way back from lunch.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Clever, Reading, Thinking

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• Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Blow, Mirrors, Views

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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• [H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.

  Alan Caruba

  Dark, Mirrors, Views

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