No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I've played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn't be… — Eliza Scanlen Copy Share Image
I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music. — Brian May Copy Share Image
You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says,… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I think essentially if you look at British public debate around the issues of our interconnectedness with the global economy you do… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our… — Anthony Caro Copy Share Image
People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
I think that what we need to do is we need to think about what scale makes sense for dealing with our… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire… — Helena Copy Share Image
The question itself [of UFOs] I think is legitimate. It's interesting, it's fascinating. It's mythic in scale and one of the grand… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
By trying to give an artistic approach through my book I stepped unwillingly into other fields. Like a dentist being asked about… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
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...there's no such thing as sustainability. There are just levels of it. It's a process, not a real goal. All you can… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“Look at it this way: there are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
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I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine. — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language. — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally;… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like. — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano. — Dorothy Cannell Copy Share Image
When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child… — Gregory Kane Copy Share Image
What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
It is hard to come up with ideas that are achievable on a scale that you know you are going to have… — Jake Schreier Copy Share Image
There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the… — Carl Shapiro Copy Share Image
We've got to build scale. We're going to hire the best people, build the best systems, and find solutions. — Jeff Henderson Copy Share Image
When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
![“The question itself [of UFOs] I think is legitimate. It's interesting, it's fascinating. It's mythic in scale and one of the grand questions. It's like the God question or, you know, the meaning-of-life question. It's one of those, on that scale. So you'd have to be made of wood not to be…” quote by Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/24a/michael-shermer-2567_fascinating_the-question-itself-of-ufos-i-think-is-l_493052.jpg)
![“Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men of fifty, which, you must admit is very wonderful. Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won't learn their lessons or…” quote by Gaston Leroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f3d/gaston-leroux-7986_angel_sometimes-the-angel-of-music-leans-over_1369318.jpg)
![“When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.” quote by Stephen Malkmus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82b/stephen-malkmus-2984_bent_when-i-was-a-kid-i-really-liked-the-guit_1151341.jpg)
