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

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
Marguerite Yourcenar

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
Lindsey Buckingham

I do not see scales as abstract.
James Galway

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

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
Lara St. John

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
John Cale

I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
Keanu Reeves

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.
Tim Bishop

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

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mohandas Gandhi

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.
James Galway

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Paul Sweeney

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

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
Aesop

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
Arthur Henderson

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

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.
David Baker

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
Morrie Schwartz

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