(44 quotes found)
“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.”
Cynthia Heimel
“Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?”
Victor Hugo
“By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.”
Yukio Mishima
“The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contacts painful and revolting”
Marshall McLuhan
“He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion”
Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“We have new evidence that the universe suddenly grew from sub-microscopic to astronomical size in less than the blink of an eye.”
Charles Bennett
“The refs are under a microscope. So we can't blame them.”
Brendan Witt
“Under the microscope it is clear that an important watershed is approaching. The short-term downtrend is about to come into conflict with the medium-term uptrend. Typically we would side with the longer-term move but the length of the downtrend from the high is a major cautionary note.”
Barclays Capital
“This is analogous to what is colloquially known as being punch drunk, ... We believe the microscopic changes in the brain are consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy or a degeneration over time that set the stage for the final result. The meningitis was not bacterial or viral or the kind you see in college dorms or army barracks.”
Cyril Wecht
