Shrunken Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

What should be shrunken must first be stretched. — Laozi
This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth. — Juan Trippe
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else… — J.R.R. Tolkien
What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is… — Rudy Rucker
I wish I could shrink down to the size of an ant. And maybe there would be thousands of other people shrunken down to ant-size,… — Jack Handey
In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth. — Juan Trippe
In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches… — Sigmund Freud
There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help… — Sarah Vowell
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces… — Hilda Doolittle
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative… — Sylvia Plath
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance… — Gunnar Myrdal
I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe… — Wilhelm Reich
The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall. — Emily Dickinson
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing… — Anais Nin
The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel… — Nathan Myhrvold
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. — Adlai E. Stevenson
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later… — John Knowles
It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the… — Carolyn Parkhurst
Go in and get us a shrunken head! — Ellen Schreiber
And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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