Scales Quotes - Page 4

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan.

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.

Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.

The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

For me, if I get up and don't meditate and don't eat something before having caffeine, I go from 0 to 10 on the stress scale.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan].