#proportions

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even

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

— Marcus V. Pollio

#architect #buildings #care #due #more

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#air #beauty #been #between #blocks

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

— Ben Jonson

#just #life #may #measures #perfect

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ↗

— David Hume

#evidence #his #man #proportions #wise

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. ↗

— David Ricardo

#capital #combined #invested #labour #machinery

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#bureaucracy #cold #cold war #elephant #grown

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. ↗

— William Blake

#beautiful #eyes #filled #grapes #guinea

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#failure #fiasco #mythic #proportions #simply

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#difference #disaster #failure #fiasco #mythic