Miniatures Quotes - Page 4

• Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms

  Karl A. Menninger

  War, Games, Play

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• Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all the earlier developed parts of the plant. In a word, Man must represent the whole world in miniature.

  Lorenz Oken

  Nature, Science, Men

  Lorenz Oken, Alfred Tulk (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.2

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• The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Doe, Body, Shrines

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.180, Shambhala Publications

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• It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

  Roger Caras

  Dog, Panty Hose, Looks

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• In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Art, Children, Fun

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• There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

  Fleur Adcock

  Betrayal, Sleep, Insomnia

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• I certainly hadn't expected to walk away from today's trip with joint custody of a miniature dragon.

  Richelle Mead

  Dragons, Custody, Today

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.155, Penguin

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• On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed. Inside, he was in a world of hurt. He saw black flashes before his eyes. He saw himself falling through the air. He knew what he was turning into. He was turning into the worst kind of human on the planet: an old bitter dork. Saw himself at the Game Room, picking through the miniatures for the rest of his life. He didn't want this future but he couldn't see how it could be avoided, couldn't figure his way out of it. Fukú.

  Junot Diaz

  Hurt, Fall, Tired

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.268, Faber & Faber

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• You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet

  Simon Armitage

  Beautiful, Light, Feet

  Simon Armitage (2005). “The Shout: Selected Poems”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, Cities

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.258, Broadway Books

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• You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are supposed to look like ants, but that's not true. They look like little people. And the cars look like little cars. And even the buildings look little. It's like New York is a miniature replica of New York, which is nice, because you can see what it's really like, instead of how it feels when you're in the middle of it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Beautiful, New York, Nice

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

  Adam Savage

  Light, Magic, Details

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• And so the dentist says 'Rinse.' So you lean over, and you're lookin' at this miniature toilet bowl.

  Bill Cosby

  Toilets, Dentist, Bowls

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• I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her [daughter]. And what impresses me the most is that she, Deva, is an individual person. But in miniature, she seems to be a special effect.

  Monica Bellucci

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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

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• I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

  Olivia Wilde

  Stress, Passion, Kids

  "Olivia Wilde Tells Us Her Dos and Don'ts of Turning 30". www.glamour.com. August 5, 2013.

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• I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Dog, Kids

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.48, Open Road Media

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• Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

  Garry Kasparov

  Struggle, Battle, Chess

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• A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

  Toni Morrison

  Sunshine, Orange Trees, Sky

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Tar Baby”, New Amer Library

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• 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.

  Andre Agassi

  Tennis, Everyday, Faults

  Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.10, Vintage

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• I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

  James Wolcott

  Snow, Fiction, World

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• I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There's the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he's wild. And then there's the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice.

  Slash

  Crazy, Real, Nice

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• Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

  Muhammad Ali

  War, Fighting, Boxing

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• I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party and construct a wildly colorful scene to put on its screen, or do a series of dollhouse chairs frozen in ice cubes.

  Matthea Harvey

  Party, Ice, Cake

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Chess is a miniature version of life.

  Susan Polgar

  Chess, Versions

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• I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.

  Bent Larsen

  Strong, Moving, Thinking

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