The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't… — John Entwistle Copy Share Image
The world's forests need to be seen for what they are.. giant global utilities, providing essential services to humanity on a vast… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points.… — Dan Gillmor Copy Share Image
Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To… — Nicholas Deak Copy Share Image
All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale. — Faisal I of Iraq Copy Share Image
It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love… — Sister Parish Copy Share Image
The fact is that it's the most dangerous place to be on the political scale is to brand those on the other… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of… — John Constable Copy Share Image
