Miniatures Quotes - Page 2

• A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.

  Robertson Davies

  Boys, Men, Self

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

  Matt Groening

  Love, Dance, Dream

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• A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Expression, Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

  Bobby Sherman

  Love, Birthday, Real

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• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price

  Samuel Morse

  Science, Ivory, Dollars

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• You are my Marilyn. You are my lake full of fishes. You are my sky set, my 'Hollywood in Miniature,' my pink Cadillac, my highway, my martini, the stage for my heart to rock and roll on, the screen where my movies light up.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Heart, Lakes, Light

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Weetzie Bat”, p.92, Zondervan

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• I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

  Salman Rushdie

  Beautiful, People, Mountain

  "Salman Rushdie, The Art of Fiction No. 186". Interviewed with Jack Livings, The Paris Review, Issue 174, www.theparisreview.org. Summer 2005.

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• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

  Novalis

  Knowing, World, Poet

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• Dogs are like their owners. If you get an uptight owner, you have an uptight dog. If you have an assertive owner, half drunk who thinks he owns the whole track, the dog will be the same. If you see that kind of person, he doesn't own a miniature Poodle.

  James R. Heath

  Dog, Thinking, Track

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• People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

  Dustin Pedroia

  Badass, People, Wish

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• I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Book, Taj Mahal, Painting

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• Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Stories, Shells, Clamor

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• Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Sleep, Night

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

  Peter Jackson

  Trying, Use, Adore

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Prayer, Firsts, Structure

  Jonathan Sacks, United Synagogue, The (2011). “Hebrew Daily Prayer Book”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

  Beth Moore

  Thrones, Kingdoms

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• I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.

  John Adams

  School, Knowledge, Feet

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.9

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• An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

  C. L. R. James

  Military, Army, Produce

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• My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together. Help me build the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online. I also invite you, wherever you are, to create your own miniature child-driven learning environments and share your discoveries.

  Sugata Mitra

  Children, School, Adventure

  "TED2013 Launches With a Bang" by Brian Hoffstein, bigthink.com.

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• Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

  Sylvia Earle

  Cities, Feet, Forests

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• Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.

  Michelle Huneven

  Art, Dad, Memories

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• A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Art, Law, Motorcycle

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• Water - the ocean - is our most natural environment.
  We are born naked from the miniature ocean of the mother's womb.

  Jacques Mayol

  Mother, Ocean, Water

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• The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Fashion, Spring, Wings

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