#scale

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#beauty #could #decided #flower #huge

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#creed #free #free market #market #measurement

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#complete #design #drawn #furniture #i

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#feat #i #performed #russian #scale

I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#been #different #different genres #different kinds #films

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#any #being #creature #does #doing

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#attack #disaster #entire #equipped #government

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#aspect #big #big deal #bored #deal

After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character... You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#ankles #around #because #body #character