#magnify

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#away #behind #blazes #both #dew

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#glasses #greatest #his #look #magnifying

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. ↗

— Fred Allen

#better #even #good #magnify #press

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#character #curb #kick #kind #line

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#any #connect #fame #hatred #hollow

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#every man #exists #full #himself #his

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#been #do you know #hearing #imagining #know

We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#between #difference #dress #english #how

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#art #audience #enlarge #enough #glass