Words matter. These are the best Microcosm Quotes from famous people such as Hong Chau, Douglas Brinkley, Paul Di Filippo, Olga Tokarczuk, Lydia Millet, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m really into ghost towns. I’ve driven cross-country the past few summers, and I would stop at some ghost towns along the way. They’re like a microcosm of America as a whole.
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, ‘Joyland.’ He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.
We know so much about planets and the universe and small particles and we do not know anything about the inner state of our own bodies, we do not know about this microcosm we have inside our skin.
L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America – because it’s so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
Florida is a great microcosm of the country.
Health reform is, in some ways, a microcosm to everything that’s right about Washington and everything that’s wrong about it.
In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
We’re a microcosm of America and are blessed to live in a country that’s so diverse. While it’s great for people to see that we can love and respect each other and work together, despite our differences, at the end of the day, we just want to make great music.
Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet – in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.
Weddings are such a microcosm of norms, of traditions, and in those traditions, there are a lot of things that have been sort of codified: misogyny and ownership and the patriarchy. So what happens when two very, very disparate families come together for one wedding?
The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the ‘real’ world.
I always say ‘The Bachelor’ doesn’t create and drive social issues. We’re a microcosm of what’s happening in the world.
San Francisco is the microcosm for what’s happening all over the world.
It’s thrilling. There’s birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It’s like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
The entertainment industry is a microcosm of the real world. To be ‘othered’ within the industry is a reflection of where we have been cast in the outside world, existing in the margins of society for decades witnessing cisgendered, heterosexual whiteness as the clearly defined default to which we must cater.
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
I love how close you are to current affairs and social issues here in England. Out in L.A., you have to make an effort to look outside that little microcosm. It’s almost like it’s a virtual reality to imagine a problem there.
State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government – broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.
In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That’s one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It’s a microcosm of the Ummah’s condition.
Ithaca is sort of a populated and diverse area. There’s a wide spectrum of people living there. In that sense, it was a wonderful place to grow up because it was a microcosm – ultimately, I would learn – of New York City.
Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it’s the most serious time of your life.
The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting India’s diversity.
‘Fortitude’ is like the world in microcosm. It’s like watching America or Russia, only you’re isolated. Once you’re inside, you can’t escape.
You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.
The world of womens’ prisons is indeed a microcosm.
Sports is human life in microcosm.
If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which is a microcosm of the world, is the perfect place to model social change because if it doesn’t work this time, you can try again on the next production.
Inglewood is a microcosm of Los Angeles. It’s a city by the airport. It’s the first city when you’re coming into L.A., and the last city when you leave.
Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.
I probably don’t make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I’m one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.
