The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.
Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these universes that are compatible without existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense, the lords of creation.
God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
We aspire to make artisanal tortillas on an industrial scale.
Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.
On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.
We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not media consolidation in the traditional sense, where a few huge conglomerates used economies of scale to dominate journalism by dominating the local and national agendas. This consolidation, to a very few companies plus increasing government intervention, is even more dangerous — and information providers of all kinds are finally starting to grasp what’s happening.
Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.
I liked the idea of using this mega-star [Beyoncé ] to talk about all those things on the tiny scale of my life.
That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still done in models, built in a certain scale out of plaster, and packing tons and tons of little explosives and charges in there. We had a second one in case it didn't work the first time, but it worked the first time.
Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.