Top 280 Proportions Quotes & Sayings

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

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

I love all these things where proportions have been changed and altered.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

The primary factor is proportions.

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.

So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.

To say the 'Save My Soul' video means a lot to me would be an understatement of stupendous proportions.

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

I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

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

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

Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.

Sometimes belts are flattering, and it helps with proportions.

I'm just really good at dressing my body's proportions.

I don't have the proportions for 'hood hot.'

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

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

Glamour has been an integral part of showbiz from a longtime and the whole debate about exposing and vulgarity is blown out of proportions.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

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

I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions.

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

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

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions.

When a garment is in sync with your body and its proportions, it looks and feels amazing, and in France that is something that all women know from a young age.

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

The Affordable Care Act is a public-policy flop of epic proportions.

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.