#magnifying

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

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

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

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #enjoy #give #hand #honestly

I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#candy #front #fun #get #glass

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#concepts #glass #magnifying #more #nothing

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enterprises #expect #few #great #had

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