Scales Quotes

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.

...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.

Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

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

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

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

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.

The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.

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

To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!

When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.

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

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

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

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

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

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 Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.