Quotes About Miniature

You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are supposed to look like ants, but that's not true. They look like little people. And the cars look like little cars. And even the buildings look little. It's like New York is a miniature replica of New York, which is nice, because you can see what it's really like, instead of how it feels when you're in the middle of it.

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

The Bantam Class includes the miniature breeds of the domestic duck clan. These birds weigh between 18 and 40 ounces.

I]t's become standard practice to erect a miniature police state around any globalization summit, and these rights free zones seem to prefigure what corporate globalization promises.

I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn't find tractors small enough to fit it.

A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor.

In October 1959, I could scarcely wait to get off the plane that had brought me to New Delhi so that I could go to the Indian Arts Palace in Connaught Place and begin buying miniature paintings.

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

Out of her mouth came a stream of discrete, miraculous gadgets—tiny but mobile creatures so intricately small that generations marveled and would go on marveling at how the inventor ever got the motors into them.

If you make them tiny, and you have to because the pages are only about this big, then everything changes. It's like they come to life by themselves. Then you have to draw in all these different details for them. You have to think about how they'd protect themselves, how they'd reach things.

The world had scaled itself down into endless inches of possibility. Her life could be lived in generous miniature.

I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale.

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.

I certainly hadn't expected to walk away from today's trip with joint custody of a miniature dragon.

la escuela, el colegio, no es sino una sociedad en miniatura. Por eso nos están dando órdenes continuamente. Un puñado de ciegos nos dice lo que tenemos que hacer, y hace trizas nuestras ilimitadas facultades.

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price

Aye, boy. Those are wings bulging its flanks, are they not?" Flinx nodded. "Then it's surely an Alaspinian miniature dragon." Flinx grinned at the old man, then down at Pip. "So that's what you are." The snake looked up at him as if to say, I'm well aware of what I am, and do you always find the obvious so remarkable?

There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes.

Mark Twain fell in love with his wife after he saw her picture painted on an ivory miniature the size of a fingernail.

He removed a miniature can of graphite spray

Outside the walls the confusion was indescribable. If the city represented a carved miniature of the world, the suburbs represented the same model broken into a thousand pieces, tumbled in a bag and shot out at random.

Through the window I saw buildings the size of dollhouses, cars that crawled like ants.