(5 quotes found)
“Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.”
Dan Brown
“We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.”
Herbert Spencer
“Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.”
Emile M. Cioran
“The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea”
Albert Einstein
“We are f acing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.”
Jerome Hines
