Top 25 Magnifying Quotes

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn’t serve anyone, and it’s painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you’re magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

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.

I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They’re discovery devices, not performance devices – you’re watching things the way a cat does. You’re not judging. You’re there to witness something.

I love being able to tell a story visually. It’s something I love about making commercials, where you put a magnifying glass over the mundane and make it feel extraordinary.

‘Research,’ for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one’s memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that’s my biggest fear.

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.

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.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.

With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability.

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there’s a mirror in the bathroom, but it’s a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don’t like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

As humans, we’ve all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.

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.

I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays – with the Internet – there’s so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything‘s sort of under a magnifying glass.

We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.

Everybody is always looking at the best in the world with a magnifying glass and they are criticised more than others.

By magnifying and analyzing your missteps, you learn faster.

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

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

I have serious medical support when Im filming ‘Grantchester’. Theyre super-cautious with me – and all I do is lift a blooming magnifying glass.

This is how I feel about horror films: there’s enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

The functional uses of machines and innovative computer programs is not to isolate us but, rather, to promote coexistence. If used properly, it brings us together, granting unimaginable opportunities, magnifying the most quintessential and exclusively human capabilities.

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.

There are times where I’m just open to receive songs. I sit down, and a jam will just come out, all at once. It’s like, ‘Song. Done.’ I can’t really explain it. This isn’t the best way of putting it, but sometimes I feel like I’m a magnifying glass for vibes.

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