Magnifying Quotes
68 Magnifying quotes by 62 unique authors
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In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm…
— Jack Kevorkian
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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…
— Gore Verbinski
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In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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…
— Oscar Nunez
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I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office.…
— John Grisham
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It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.
— Harry Hill
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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,…
— Tomas Transtromer
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
— Robert Henri
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I just feel like I understand Cameron Diaz better than I ever have before, and I don’t like it. I don’t like to see everything…
— Julie Klausner
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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
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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…
— Mitch Hedberg
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
— Samuel Johnson
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I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. But I can sit and watch an ant run up and down…
— John Lydon
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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
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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…
— Taylor Swift
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All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And…
— Julia Glass
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It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that…
— Betty Smith
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Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.
— David Sedaris
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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…
— Marquis de Sade
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Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and…
— Fannie Flagg
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We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions —…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically…
— Neal Shusterman
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
— George Eliot
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Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in my high school…
— Haruki Murakami
Who Wrote These Magnifying Quotes
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