Time Scales

Famous quotes containing the words time and/or scales:

    Mrs. Grayle: You know, this’ll be the first time I’ve ever killed anyone I knew so little and liked so well. What’s your name?
    Philip Marlowe: Philip for short.
    Mrs. Grayle: Philip. Philip Marlowe. A name for a duke. You’re just a nice mug.
    John Paxton (1911–1985)

    It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)