A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly…

“I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...”

— Alexandre Dumas

“At night she runs her fingertips over her father’s model: the bell tower, the display windows. She imagines Jules Verne’s characters walking along the…

— Anthony Doerr

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

— John Lasseter

I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature models; it's all CG now, creating worlds…

— James Cameron

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I…

— Gregory Maguire

In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus -…

— John Tyler Bonner

“Creation is the miniature of creation”

— Donald Revell

“Which ensures that life gets lived in miniature. In lieu of the large feelings—sorrow, fury, joy—I had their junior counterparts—anxiety, irritation, excitement. But”

— Mary Karr

I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature…

— Jane Krakowski

I've got two little dogs, a little Chihuahua-Pomeranian I've had for about eight years - his name is Oliver - and a miniature German…

— Scott Michael Foster

“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”

— Anonymous

The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I going to build my own miniature magnetar one day. Promise this

— Anonymous

A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming…

— Robertson Davies

My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning,…

— Shahzia Sikander