“I look forward and see myself look back.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
Sermon (23 November 1879)
Letters, etc
“I look forward and see myself look back.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
Stephen Jay Berg (1951) Fifth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pueblo
Source: Newly appointed Pueblo, Colo. bishop promises to give his all https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/newly-appointed-pueblo-colo-bishop-promises-to-give-his-all (January 15, 2014)
Saul Kripke book Naming and Necessity
Naming and Necessity (1980, p. 291)
Context: If I use the name 'Hesperus' to refer to a certain planetary body when seen in a certain celestial position in the evening, it will not therefore be a necessary truth that Hesperus is ever seen in the evening. That depends on various contingent facts about people being there to see and things like that. So even if I should say to myself that I will use 'Hesperus' to name the heavenly body I see in the evening in yonder position of the sky, it will not be necessary that Hesperus was ever seen in the evening. But it may be a priori in that this is how I have determined the referent.
Iggy Pop (1947) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
On wearing leotards and fishnet stockings in his early performances.
Rolling Stone interview (2003)
Context: I wore that because it makes me look beautiful. I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, "Wow, I'm really great-looking."... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880) American priest
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 66.
“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
“I love being a beautiful woman when I look at myself in the mirror.”
Layal Abboud (1982) Lebanese pop singer
June 15, 2017; Al Kahera Walnas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LcMvesgyTM <br class="br">2017