Quotes About Scales

Well, I would turn into a dragon and fly you home, but something tells me you would protest. (Sebastian) No doubt. I imagine the scales would also chafe my skin. (Channon) True. Not to mention, I once learned the hard way that they really do call the military out on you. You know, fighter jets are hard to dodge when you have a forty-foot wingspan. (Sebastian)

When the Dragon bent her neck to shift a wing long as a battlefold, an ashen sheen rippled over char-dark scales.

People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice.

There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean.

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I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.

I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you're in the street, listening to people, you're forced to be in the service of your subject.

They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.

As I did so, music began to echo through the apartment, first scales, then something melodic and beautiful. I stopped to listen, marveling at the sound, wondering how it must feel to be able to create something so gorgeous. I closed my eyes, letting it flow through me, remembering the evening when Will had taken me to my first concert and begun to force the world open for me. Live music was so much more three-dimensional than recorded-it short-circuited something deep within.

Turtles' shells are bony plates covered with scales called scutes. The ancient relatives of birds also had scales.

The Scientific Revolution had revealed that everyday experience is a narrow slice of a vast continuum of scales from the microscopic to the astronomical, and that our own abode is a rock orbiting a star rather than the center of creation.

I knew if I wanted to improvise over chord changes, I'd have to figure out all the scales that went with all those chords.

Scales aren't just for all the would-be pastry wizards out there, either. They're a necessary tool for any serious cook as well, especially for determining ratios or servings.

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Six pull-tabs lay in the ashtray like scales from a mermaid.

Skin flakes are properly called squamae (meaning "scales").

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

The uncertainty principle tells us that the universe is a frenetic place when examined on smaller and smaller distances and shorter and shorter time scales.

once you get past the scales and the blindfold, Justice is a woman with a sword.

I love the concept of unity and diversity Ã¢â'¬Â¦ most decisions are based on a tiny difference. People say this was right and that wrong—the difference was a feather Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I keep scales wherever I am to remind me of that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ They're a symbol of my awareness of the distortion most people have of what's better and what isn't. LSR

I just calorie count and knock the booze on the head and then watch the scales to see the weight come off. Now I've been very healthy.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

His name tasted of fire and wings, of curling smoke, of subtlety and strength and the rasping whisper of scales.