Inspiration Quote by Rosamond Purcell

“A Little Fable "Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I…

— Franz Kafka

“The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race is as ineradicable as the flea;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such small things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals…

— L. Frank Baum

“But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the whole rearing…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“I have seen many amazing things in my long and troubled life history. I have seen a series of corridors built entirely out of…

— Lemony Snicket

“As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane metaphorically described the advantages of smallness: “You can drop a mouse down a thousandyard mineshaft; and on…

— James C. Scott

“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not…

— Bernard De Chartres

“They construct billboards out in the sea, painted allegories adorn their facades, hawking sex and sentiment to the opulent, the fortunate of the people…

— Holly Walrath

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home,…

— Barbara Pym

“Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

— Walter Savage Landor

“The mountainous surges suggest the idea of innumerable dumb gigantic fiends struggling in impotent agony.”

— Edgar Allan Poe