What better way to actually deal with L. A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself?
The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.
It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.
As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.
You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees.
You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.
Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
You can't put being in love on a scale. Either you are or you aren't.
Longing on a large scale makes history.
Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.
People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another.
Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater. " But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.
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.
What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton. . . oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces.
We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.
I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.