#scale

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #happiness #i #i see #life

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#liberating #long #out #proportion #scale

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. ↗

— Dick Dale

#anger #extension #frustration #i #music

If I step on a scale, I won't eat for five months. ↗

— Serena Williams

#five #i #months #scale #step

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#around #band #couple #dad #ear

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. ↗

— Pat Summerall

#believe #get #high #how #i

The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#being #being the best #best #championships #contributing

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. ↗

— Plutarch

#balance #friends #just #only #prosperity

Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. ↗

— Earl Browder

#capitalism #created #economic #economic growth #expansion

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #kind #model #ought #out