When it comes to brains, size matters. It’s not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans’, but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they’re also highly sophisticated.
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.
Well, the Empire State was about 40′ high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2′ high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.
The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code.
Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
I’m interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It’s a small proportion of what I do, but it’s always what people seem to focus on.
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
I’ve generally got a good eye for design and proportion.
I am, ‘Guardian’ readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I’ve lived a high proportion of my life abroad. The fact that I oppose the political amalgamation of the European Union’s states is ipso facto proof that I dislike foreigners.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
I’m in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.
The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.
I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it’s more fun for people to read about. It’s even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you’re younger but now I just think ‘well everybody’s absolutely mad and I’m doing quite well’.
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion.
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
I’ve got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It’s difficult if you have kids, and it’s hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.
