Exaggeration Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett Download Open image “Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exaggeration Magnifying Matter Way
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
One must be able to see the bigger picture in order to be able to focus on what needs to be magnified. — Wade Gardner Copy Share Image
Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of… — Edwin Paxton Hood Copy Share Image
Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way. — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“Affective amplification does not simply turn up the volume on what is already there, but points to the presence of something “separate.” Tomkins places… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
“People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Fuck anybody who’d call a hill a mountain and name it after themselves.” — A.D. Aliwat Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
