Magnifying Glass Quotes

• I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Men, Glasses

  Alexander Pope (1778). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators”, p.297

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• The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Fear, Anxiety, Doubt

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

  Craig Stone

  Lying, Glasses, Waiting

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• Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Strong, Humility, Eye

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.160, Univ of California Press

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• The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

  Theodor Adorno

  Eye, Glasses, Splinters

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.64, Univ of California Press

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• Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart.

  Mia Sheridan

  Book, Heart, Love Is

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• Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Emotional, Glasses, Giants

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• Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face.

  Tony Hsieh

  Iphone, Glasses, Ipads

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• The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Glasses, Sight, Understanding

  Moses Mendelssohn, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (1997). “Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings”, p.258, Cambridge University Press

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• My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Fire, Glasses

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

  Duane Michals

  Flower, Eye, Circles

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• One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

  Hermann Broch

  Hate, Men, Feet

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• The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

  Montgomery Clift

  Art, Glasses, Mirrors

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• Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

  Gore Verbinski

  Drama, Glasses, Lenses

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• Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Thinking, Glasses

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• Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be useful. It is good for close-up work. We have invented the magnifying glass and the microscope to narrow our vision, because narrowness makes for precision. But narrowness also makes for a failure of purpose, for exhaustion of the will; for purpose depends upon a broad vision, a clear sight of one's objective.

  Colin Wilson

  Mean, Glasses, Sight

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• A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, Glasses, Self

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Summer, Night, Knowing

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• I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

  Taylor Swift

  Glasses, Trying, And Love

  "Taylor Swift Reveals Meaning Of ‘Red’ Album Title" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2012.

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• The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which is a little bit like putting the experience under a magnifying glass, you realize you have no idea how you thought as a kid. I've come to the conclusion that most of the things that we remember about our childhood are lies. We all have memories that stand out from when we were kids, but they're really just snapshots. You can't remember how you reacted because your whole head is different when you stand aside.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Lying, Kids

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• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  Oscar Nunez

  Writing, Kids, Glasses

  "Oscar Nunez Exclusive Interview THE OFFICE". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. February 12, 2011.

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• Failure is life's magnifying glass.

  Simon May

  Glasses, Magnifying

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• Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

  David Sedaris

  Glasses, Faces, Chaos

  "April & Paris". www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2008.

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• Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

  Thomas Browne

  Love, Glasses, Affection

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.115

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