We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.
It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.
The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.
My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. . . . it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.
[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
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.
. . . We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
That is one trouble about trading on a large scale. You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along.
Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.
In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.