Proportions Quotes

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel

Fashion, Matter

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
William Blake

Money, Beautiful, Eyes

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume

Wise, Belief, Evidence

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom

Success, Failure, Simply

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
Madeleine Albright

War, Cold, Gymnastics

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Sarah Bernhardt

Beauty, Truth, Theatre

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
David Wilkerson

Fear, Greatest, Happen

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom

Failure, Between, Difference

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.
Sloane Crosley

Life, Time, Long

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Him, Reputation, Shadow

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
Andrew Motion

Beautiful, Person, Her

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
Marcus V. Pollio

Care, Nothing, Buildings

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
Philip Emeagwali

Men, Positive, American

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.
Paul Davies

Family, Control, Become

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Ben Jonson

Life, May, Small

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
Arne Jacobsen

Beauty, Old, Between

The primary factor is proportions.
Arne Jacobsen

Factor, Primary

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined.
David Ricardo

May, Support, Tools

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
Nigel Lythgoe

Home, American, Epic

Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.
Donnie Wahlberg

Fun, Rock, Real

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.
Rene Cassin

Awesome, Along, Conflict

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
Derek Walcott

Human, May, Before

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.
Franklin Knight Lane

Work, Great, Personal

And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell

Trust, Good, Death

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
David Keene

Political, Big, Economic

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