Miniatures Quotes

• When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

  Johnny Depp

  Motivational, Family, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

  John Lasseter

  Real, People, World

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• One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

  Albert Pike

  Men, World, Creation

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• Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

  Paul Stamets

  Nature, Health, Unique

  Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

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• A day is a miniature eternity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Mystery, Eternity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Pieces, World

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.6, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Moving, Thinking, Psychology

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "Anxiety and Instinctual Life" (Lecture 32), 1933.

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• The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. 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.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Character, Childhood

  "The Theory of Psychoanalysis". Book by Carl Jung, 1915.

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• While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

  Gregory Maguire

  Party, Pride, Garden

  "Meet the Writers: Biography (from barnesandnoble.com)".

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• As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

  Ed Helms

  Imagination, Capture, My Imagination

  "Q&A: Ed Helms on Nerdom and How He Almost Destroyed His Hands for Mumford & Sons". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. September 6, 2013.

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• We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Mirrors, Should

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• You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

  Cate Blanchett

  Children, Barbie Dolls, Scary

  "11 Amazing Quotes From Cate Blanchett". Marie Claire, November 13, 2014.

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• It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.

  Andre Agassi

  Thinking, Games, Choices

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Jan 14, 2015

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• Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

  Susan Polgar

  Successful, Choices, Needs

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• I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

  John Hench

  Two, Dry, Animation

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• Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Family, World, Emotion

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Parents and children”

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• 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.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Men, Gestures, Able

  "Sufism in Britain". Book by Ron Geaves, Theodore Gabriel, A&C Black, p. 64, 2013.

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• I did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption.

  John C. McGinley

  Character, Mean, Giving

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• The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

  Salman Rushdie

  Artist, Achievement, Done

  "Salman Rushdie Spins a Yarn". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. June 2, 2008.

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• My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Change, Color, Light

  "Trumbull's Vision" by Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 01, 1997.

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• Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center of the universe. Children are miniature adults. At one time in history each of these beliefs was generally held to be true. Each, however, gave way to different ideas and even different world views.

  Michael Lewis

  Children, Views, Ideas

  Michael Lewis (1998). “Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future”, p.17, Guilford Press

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• We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals.

  Kyle Chandler

  Dog, Horse, Couple

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Heaven, Vision

  "Bertrand Russell's Best".

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• Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Real, Struggle, Games

  Bruce Pandolfini (2008). “Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.

  Joe Hyams

  Anxiety, Cosmos, Dojo

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.4, Bantam

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