To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I encourage people to play around, mix proportions, textures, seasons and prints, and to find what makes them feel their most comfortable… — Thakoon Panichgul Copy Share Image
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
I can sit in the room with the other writers and just keep saying no until there's something I really like or… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Proportion ... You can't help thinking about it in these London streets, where it doesn't exist ... It's like listening to a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended,… — John Gorrie Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice;… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
