Microcosm Quotations

I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

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.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

But generally, I'd say we're a microcosm of the college prep kids in the state. I think the current representation is fine.

We managed to pass it around pretty well tonight and I was happy with the way things were going, and I think that play was a microcosm of how the ball was moving tonight. Unfortunately, that was the only play that led to a goal for us.

Today is just a microcosm of what we've been seeing in the past week and a half and that's meeting or beating expectations, coming in with year-over-year earnings growth of around 12 percent.

Manchester is a microcosm for what we do in the whole division. It's the place we often go to first for launching new products like digital phone or a high-speed upgrade. It's a well-run system where people are collaborative and go the extra mile.

It is a microcosm of events generally hitting the market, ... and it reinforces the notion that there are yet-to-be-reported losses at other institutions that would pose systemic risk.

Our church is like a microcosm of the Anglican community. I've got 28 nationalities from every continent.

Today's kind of a microcosm of the season. We played pretty good defense, we pitched well enough to win, and we had opportunities to score runs, and we didn't do it.

Unfortunately the situation in New Orleans is a microcosm of our nation as a whole. Although our reliance on foreign savings and production are widely known, and most economists accept the fact that a real economic disaster would ensue should foreigners discontinue such subsidies, dump their hoards of U.S. treasuries, and refuse to exchange real goods for paper dollars. However, rather than perusing policies to rebalance our economy, we simply do nothing, and hope that day of reckoning never arrives. However, just as that strategy backfired in New Orleans, so, too, will it for America as a whole.

Unfortunately the situation in New Orleans is a microcosm of our nation as a whole. Although our reliance on foreign savings and production are widely known, and most economists accept the fact that a real economic disaster would ensue should foreigners discontinue such subsidies, dump their hoards of U.S. treasuries, and refuse to exchange real goods for paper dollars. However, rather than perusing policies to rebalance our economy, we simply do nothing, and hope that day of reckoning never arrives. However, just as that strategy backfired in New Orleans , so, too, will it for America as a whole.

When I think of the delicate balance of tremendous promise and urgent peril in today's world, I think particularly of the nations of Latin America, ... Because yours is a region that truly hangs in that delicate balance. It is in many ways a microcosm of the world in which we live, and it is therefore a place in which all that the United Nations stands for is put to test.

We really opened up for the film of King George, but then the places where its characters lived and worked cried out to be opened up. The world of this story is the school, so the big decision we took was not to twist ourselves in knots trying to give it a false sense of scale. Closed worlds like schools, army bases, prisons or hospitals are fantastic, because they stand as a microcosm for a bigger world.

That was a microcosm of our whole season. I couldn't put it any clearer. We dug ourselves a hole and despite the effort, we couldn't get out.

We're a microcosm of everything that''s happening everywhere else, ... We're actually winning awards for what we're doing. We're dealing with it. We're keeping our heads a little bit above the water in spite of it all.

Today was really a microcosm of our season.

We're down five with the ball, call a play and then don't execute it. That's a microcosm of our season.

We did very well in the second quarter, and that has been a microcosm of our season. We play a good quarter and then not be so effective in another quarter. But our defense played pretty well throughout.

We weren't able to do that as much as we wanted, because the score was 17-0 so soon in the second half. But we had a few times where we moved the ball well, and then we were stopped. That's been the microcosm of our season.

Weyauwega is a microcosm of how to handle a disaster. This was an example of an emergency situation that would have been a disaster save for the fact we moved quickly and, I believe, correctly.

What our mission is, without getting too hyperbolic, is to go into the Annapolis and Frederick races and use them as a microcosm as to what will happen next year. We're making sure everybody knows all the races are important to us.

The struggle every American side has on the bonding front is merely a microcosm of their whole society and ideology, ... They are so bound into the individual that the idea of the team ethic or compromising for the common good is foreign to them. They can't get their head round it at all.

What happened on the 18th is merely a microcosm of the problem of racism that exists here on campus and within society at large.

Our customer base is a microcosm of the market, I have to believe that when we see this kind of strength we are looking at some broad-based economic activity that can drive the electronics sector.

Florida is the microcosm of the entire nation. What issue is there nationally that is not an issue in Florida?

This game was a microcosm of our season. We had a chance to win every game.

This is a whole powerful computing microcosm by itself.

Clear Fork played very well. I thought we were tentative all night and that's not the way we played all year. We missed a lot of free throws (13-of-23) and that's a microcosm of what went wrong tonight.

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.

It was kind of a microcosm of our season, ... Started out slow, finished strong.

It was kind of like a microcosm of our season. I thought we played hard, I thought we competed hard on the defensive end. We just couldn't make a play when we needed to.

It was kind of like a microcosm of our season, that game. ... We just couldn't make the play when we needed to. We had chances, and we let the chances go.

It was kind of like a ... microcosm of our season. When we had to get a rebound, when we had to get a 50-50 ball, when we had to make a free throw, we just weren't able to do it.

The game came down to free throw situations where we didn't rebound the basketball. They got two big rebounds and extra possessions, and that was like a microcosm of our season.

The hotel and the characters under its roof serve as a microcosm for what was happening in the country during that time.

Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

That is a microcosm of our first five games. It's just rough. Our guys did a decent job of adjusting on the run, but we were still 32 points behind them.

Arrow Rock's fascinating history represents a microcosm of the frontier experience in Missouri. A small, historic and unspoiled town, Arrow Rock had the good sense to hang on to what makes it so special. The result is a vibrant community that offers travelers an ideal retreat.

It's a continual excavation process, you could say. It's like being an archeologist of your own instrument as a kind of microcosm of the human voice, of human utterance, of sound itself. By digging into my own voice I'm uncovering feelings and energies for which we don't have words - it's like shades of feeling, early human utterance, and essential human nature.

This was kind of like a microcosm of our season.

This match was a microcosm of our first three matches. I'm disappointed that we come out here to this prestigious tournament and this fantastic facility and crowd and look that bad.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

I am in the world to change the world.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

Man is a universe in little [ Microcosm ].

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.