Famous quotes containing the words small, volume and/or element:
“If small money does not go out, big money will not come in.”
—Chinese proverb.
“There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading ... may be given without first getting the authors permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors, No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)