Quotes About Imposing

He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room.

A Johnsonian portentousness emanated from him.

a stocky figure in a frock coat sprang up the front steps of the White House.

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

Courts. To be seen as you would see the Tower of London or menagerie of Versailles with their lions, tigers, hyænas, and other beasts of prey, standing in the same relation to their fellows. A slight acquaintance with them will suffice to show you that under the most imposing exterior, they are the weakest and worst part of mankind.

Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat.

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

When you're in a business where you're surrounded by celebrity a lot - and I can go into a room and those are a lot of the people that I know, and know very well - that in itself can be intimidating.

I had heard of this Frisbie, an Assistant District Attorney, but had never seen him. I observed, when he entered, that I hadn't missed much. He was the window-dummy type—high collar, clothes pressed very nice, and embalmed stiff and cold. The only thing you could tell from his eyes was that his self-esteem almost hurt him.

glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms.

And in the fountain squatted a giant crab. I'm not talking 'giant' like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I'm talking 'giant' like bigger than the fountain.

In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his ideas to reality by imposing them on his fellow man.

The grim shapeTowered up between me and the stars, and still,For so it seemed, with purpose of its ownAnd measured motion like a living thing,Strode after me.

Judge Walter Henderson, better known as Hatchet Henderson, is a large, imposing hulk of a man who stays in shape by adhering to a no-carbohydrate, no-fat, all-lawyer diet. Open and Shut, 2003

The hospital was impossibly tall and wide, a great monument to illness.

He got to his feet--always a fascinating process to watch, because of the length of his arms and legs--and glowered down at me.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

But no one would ever have dared make fun of her, even in private: there was something about her that inspired fear and discouraged meanness.

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

Curtis Blaydes' ground and pound is really scary. Like, really, really scary.

I'm pretty tall, and I'm always dressed in black.