Top 154 Miniature Quotes & Sayings

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

And so the dentist says 'Rinse.' So you lean over, and you're lookin' at this miniature toilet bowl.

Holey Moley' is the funnest, craziest, most extreme miniature golf series you will ever experience. It was insane. If you've ever played miniature golf, this is unlike everything you've experienced.

I must have made 20 different bicycles in my life; bicycle parts are like works of art in miniature.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

Water - the ocean - is our most natural environment. We are born naked from the miniature ocean of the mother's womb.

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.

When we anthropomorphize the egg and sperm, when we turn them into a miniature bride and groom complete with personalities, what effect does this have on abortion legislation?

Chess is a miniature version of life.

A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.

People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.

The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

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

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

The schools of the country are its future in miniature.

I had one job that was kind of cop-like. One summer I did security at a miniature golf course. Just standing out in the sun all day, Hey, hey, excuse me sir. Get your putter out of the whale's ass. Come on, this is a place of miniature business. This is not a playground even though it looks like a playground.

A day is a miniature eternity.

Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies."

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

When I used to work in special effects at the model shop, I couldn't imagine having a better job. We made spaceships and miniature cities and I was working on robots. Then the 'MythBusters' opportunity came along.

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

We all have experiences and memories from miniature golf. I had my first kiss at hole nine at Golfland.

Oh come on Pam, they're funny. They're like humans but miniature...tea cup humans!

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

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

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

Just because somebody works in miniature does not diminish or invalidate their contributions to the art form compared to someone who works in live action.

Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species.

You are my Marilyn. You are my lake full of fishes. You are my sky set, my 'Hollywood in Miniature,' my pink Cadillac, my highway, my martini, the stage for my heart to rock and roll on, the screen where my movies light up.

We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals.

I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.

We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it.

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

One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

A miniature poodle is not not a dog just because it's miniature.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.