#scale

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking. ↗

— Kid Rock

#comes #country #entertainment #hollywood #influence

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. ↗

— Orson Welles

#donald #donald duck #duck #election #politicians

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#arranged #compensate #constituting #each #equilibrium

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#fail #heights #mountains #out #recognize

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#probably #scale

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#dealing #i #i think #might #minutiae

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#assault #away #bush #civil #civil liberties

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like. ↗

— Lara St. John

#concept #know #like #love #made

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics. ↗

— Lara St. John

#based #been #harmonics #historically #notes

I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#ass #awesome #being #business #care