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#proportions

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #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

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

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


Orlando Bloom


#failure #fiasco #mythic #proportions #simply

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.


Derek Walcott


#became #been #before #citizen #city

The primary factor is proportions.


Arne Jacobsen


#factor #primary #proportions

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.


Coco Chanel


#fashion #matter #proportions

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.


David Wilkerson


#believing #bomb #carry #city #fear

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


Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


#gigantic #him #his #like #man

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.


Rene Cassin


#assistance #awesome #burst #conflict #defense






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