Miniature Quotes

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Creation is the miniature of creation”

— Donald Revell

The schools of the country are its future in miniature.

— Tehyi Hsieh

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

— Anonymous

Chess is a miniature version of life.

— Susan Polgar

I'm like a miniature version of the Rock.

— Sisqo

“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”

— Anonymous

A day is a miniature eternity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great worls without.”

— Henry James

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

— Mohsin Hamid

“Unfortunately, she’s like a miniature version of me. Translation—a pain in the arse.”

— Missy Johnson

“A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit. Another was a passion for secrets...”

— Ian McEwan

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

— Ed Helms

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

— Anonymous

People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

— Dustin Pedroia

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

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed…

— Brian Selznick

Each time somebody working for the Maison has a baby, the atelier creates miniature blouses-blanches, exactly like the ones we wear, with…

— Martin Margiela

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

— Shahzia Sikander

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,…

— James Cameron

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

— John Lasseter

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise…

— Carroll Shelby

Just because somebody works in miniature does not diminish or invalidate their contributions to the art form compared to someone who works…

— Travis Knight

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

— Bruce Pandolfini

The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the…

— Lawren Harris

We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar…

— Jeff Dunham

The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York…

— Paulo Costanzo

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

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Polly was the same age as Alma, but daintier and startlingly beautiful. She looked like a perfect figurine carved out of fine…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Gregory Maguire

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

— John Tyler Bonner

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

— Anthony Doerr

“I beg you not to read anything threatening, or even prophetic, into my words, Mr. Clarke. Simply take them as a description,…

— César Aira

“Matter,” Vittoria repeated. “Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks. A miniature universe springing to life. He proved not…

— Dan Brown

A miniature poodle is not not a dog just because it's miniature.

— Alan Stern

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

— Scott Michael Foster

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting…

— Sigmund Freud

“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.…

— Mary Karr

“She was secure in the miniature world she had built; the two other men seemed distant planets, each in his own sphere…

— Michael Ondaatje