Scales Quotes

I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me. (Keanu Reeves)
We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of its existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time. View quote
Ervin László
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales... View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall. ... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn't do if your life depended on it. View quote
Robert Benchley
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. View quote
André Maurois
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. View quote
François Fénelon
In the courtroom, watch the balance of the scales If the price is right, there's time for more appeals The strings are pulled, the switch is stayed The finest lawyers fees are paid And a rich man never died upon the chair. View quote
Phil Ochs
The rights of all are equal: justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto. View quote
Hermann von Helmholtz
Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging. View quote
Ferenc Molnar
Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace. View quote
Arthur Henderson
When comparing the time scales of genetic and cultural evolution, it is useful to bear in mind that we today - every one of us - can easily understand many ideas that were simply unthinkable by the geniuses in our grandparents' generation! View quote
Daniel Dennett
I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing. View quote
Alex Lifeson
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. View quote
Charles Jencks
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. View quote
Dick Dale
Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear. View quote
Dweezil Zappa
I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales. (Lindsey Buckingham)
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. View quote
Lara St. John
The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like. View quote
Lara St. John
I don't 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. View quote
Norah O'Donnell
A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales. View quote
Rudolf Arnheim