Small Portrait

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or portrait:

“A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)

“Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called “self-interestedness.” This was not a portrait of man “warts and all.” It was all wart.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)