Quotes About Size And Scale

#1. I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium ... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.

Lee Krasner

#2. The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. Leave your incidental Dick.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.

Anthony Caro

#5. I know what it feels like to struggle with your weight, and it makes me understand why women get attached to numbers on a scale or a dress size. It doesn't mean that I have gotten over all of it myself, because I have good days and bad days just like everyone else.

Stacy London

#6. I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.

Demetri Martin

#7. The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It's like a rose, maybe a hybrid with color and size differentials, but the same genus, plucked from the same original blowsy family.

Dorianne Laux

#8. To scale all love down
To a cupped hand's size

Edith L. Tiempo

#9. Far too quickly we grow into jaded adults and lose our appreciation for silliness.

Tim Dorsey

#10. The sheer size too, the excessive abundance, scale, and exaggeration of dreams could be an infantile characteristic. The most ardent wish of children is to grow up and get as big a share of everything as the grown-ups; they are hard to satisfy; do not know the meaning of 'enough.

Sigmund Freud

#11. I was never obese, but I felt 'less than' because I wasn't as thin as other actresses. I totally fell for that low-fat craze. My goal was to be X jeans size or a specific number on the scale.

Alison Sweeney

#12. This wasn't really about the scale or what clothing size I was; it was about this battle that raged in my heart.

Lysa TerKeurst

#13. I have a map of the United States ... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

Steven Wright

#14. I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character ...

Gore Vidal

#15. There is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Oliver Heaviside

#16. It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

Robert Motherwell

#17. Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

Tony Blair

#18. If you took the entire internet and laid it end to end, it would weigh more than the other thing. It would weigh more than it would if it wasn't laid end to end. Like, if it was a ball of rolled up internet it would weigh less. I'm pretty sure. It depends on the size of the scale, I think.

Marissa Mayer

#19. Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the size of the holdings.

Sharad Pawar

#20. All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!
("The Jelly-Fish")

David H. Keller

#21. There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

Ken Follett

#22. Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size ... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life,

Satoru Iwata

#23. Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#24. The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

David Deutsch

#25. Alpha sets the scale of nature
the size of atoms and all things made of them, the intensity and colors of light, the strength of magnetism, and the metabolic rate of life itself. It controls everything that we see ... In 137, apparently, science had found Nature's PIN Code.

Frank Close

#26. Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

George Harrison

#27. Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.

John Collison

#28. I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.

Ricardo Semler

#29. I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.

Nathaniel Kahn

#30. You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

B.B. King

#31. I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

John Fogerty

#32. Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.

Glenn Beck