Quotes About Proportions

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined.

I've got a short torso and long legs, so I tend to wear longer tops and things that sit on my hips.

The world was horrible. But life continued. What is more, life's usual proportions stayed the same. The ratio of good and evil, grief and happiness, remained unchanged.

Guardamos todo un universo en nuestro interior, lleno de frecuencias sobrepuestas que componen una sinfonía de proporciones cósmicas.

Ouvi dizer que nele é tudo grande, é um pé-de-mesa… — quem lhe dissera? Ninguém: ela batia o olho e pronto, ficava a par das proporções, resultado de prática constante e efetiva.

When the proportions are too perfect it detracts from a sense of the sublime. (13 January 1857)

That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.

The moribund hermit's rage and fear, swelling to grotesque proportions, seemed likely to shatter what remained of his failing physique; and once a spasm caused him to clap his hands to his eyes and rush into the bathroom. He groped his way out with face tightly bandaged, and I never saw his eyes again.

There are holes," Myron admitted. "There are chasms of leviathan proportions," Win corrected.

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

Indian cooking—indeed, any cooking—is mostly about getting the proportions right

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

In baking, cooks need to understand ingredient ratios.

To be able to transform societies and economies to low-carbon ones was an amazing challenge. To influence and to facilitate such an important transformation in the world would be like witnessing something of industrial revolution proportions.

How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrate it down to manageable proportions, and then force it through the eye of a grammatical needle one word at a time.

I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

The proportions of these salts and minerals in our tissues are uncannily similar to those in sea water—we sweat and cry sea water, as Margulis and Sagan have put it—but curiously we cannot tolerate them as an input.

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The pyramid that can be constructed on the diameters of earth and moon bears the precise proportions of the Great Pyramid