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«It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.»
Author: Brendan Gill
(Author, Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
A level, intention, playful, scale, The New Yorker, topical
«Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos»
Author: Francis Ford Coppola
| About:
Consequences,
Passion
| Keywords:
build on, intense, invites, large scale, scale
«Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?»
«A person with amnesia is looked upon as ill. What of a person who can remember only this life? Is this then not a case of amnesia on a grand scale?»
«For thence - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale»
«Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Right,
War,
Women
| Keywords:
bloody, charge, commonly, large scale, objections, pacifist, pacifists, refutation, refutations, scale, urged, votes, world war, World War I
«If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| Keywords:
mountain, plain, plainer, plainest, scale, scaled, scaling, the Mountain, view
«Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
celebrated, colonial, commercial, debts, etc., etc, gigantic, infancy, innocents, large scale, manufacture, public debt, scale, slaughter, slaughtered, swell, tax system
«How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On every golden scale!»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
crocodile, crocodiles, golden, improve, Nile, pour, scale, shining, tail, The Crocodile, The Crocodiles, waters
«I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
affectation, affectations, by no means, earthquake, earthquakes, eruption, lava, prevents, rank, scale
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