Quotes of: Scaling Keyword

E.T.: [steps on a bathroom scale, it reads 35 lbs] Elliot: 35 pounds? You're fat!

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

[on Sid's clumsy attempts to scale a cliff] Manfred: You're an embarrassment to nature. Ya know that?

Ice Age

I feel like, on a more macro scale, there's started to be a relationship between filmmakers and people who watch their films - you know, on Twitter and on the Internet.

Colin Trevorrow

On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.

Anne Hathaway

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

Adrien Brody

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

Chaos: Making a New Science

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

Chaos: Making a New Science

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.

The Accidental Werewolf

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

Markings

If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

Carl Bernstein

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

Plutarch

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

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

Sylvia Earle

The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.

Steven Pinker

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

Thom Mayne

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

Kirk Hammett

Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

Rachael Ray

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Sam Abell

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

Ethel Merman

I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

Norah O'Donnell

Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

Yuri Milner