Miniature Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Miniature.
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“The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.”
“One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.”
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“This miniature book, made up entirely of the text above [Study Bible by Charles Ryre], was hand set and printed by Doris V. Welsh, a former member of the Newberry Library.”
“The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.”
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“It [smart contact lens] is likely to spur a range of other innovations towards miniaturizing technology and using it in wearable devices to help people monitor.”
“The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally, this is not a conscious, intellectual process.”
“My native city, with the interior of every house and every creature therein, lay open to my view in miniature. We mounted higher, and lo, the secrets of the earth, the depths of mines and inmost caverns of the hills, were bared before me.”
“These are the visionary, mystical moments, when a man 'completes his partial mind'. His everyday conscious self is only a small part of the mind, like the final crescent of the moon. In moments of crisis, the full moon suddenly appears.”
“Demons aren't bound by physics. If you take the long view, the universe is just something small and round, like those water filled balls which produce a miniature snowstorm when you shake them.”
“Their study [Soliloquy] is particularly fruitful in enabling us to grasp something of the distinctive quality of Shakespeare's craftsmanship, being in-miniature reflections of his art of language and characterization, and his skill of dovetailing in the construction.”
“Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.”
“I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is - at last what – I have found.”
“India has been a cauldron of dreams, ideas and aspirations of the humankind and this is a distinctive character of India, and Indian in that sense represents the world in miniature. If a system can succeed in India, it will indicate the possibility of success in the world as a whole.”
“By the beginning of the twentieth century, flowers, faces and miniature landscapes began to appear beside patterns of pointed stars, and to this day annual contests reward the most creative artists in this tradition.”
“Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.”