“The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.” DifferencesEqualitySmallestMeanness Author:William Makepeace Thackeray
“Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.” StatesGrowsHoursDifferencesCommonWatchesTasteJudgmentMarkTitlesDistinctionSecondsTemperSmallestRefinedIngeniousCultivationStationaryHume Book:Pleasures of Literature Source: Pleasures of Literature
“The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.” MayHoursDifferencesWatchesMinutesJudgmentOrdinaryMachinesClockSufficientSecondsSmallest Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
“The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.” FilmActorsDifferencesMovementTheaterGlassesSmallestMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Olivia Thirlby
“In the midday sun, a bright light will be barely noticed. Yet in the darkest night, even the smallest light can make an enormous difference.” LightNightDifferencesSunSadnessSadEnormousSmallestBright Lights Author:Ralph Marston