Quotes About Height

I've never let anyone measure me in my entire life, but I think I'm 5-11.

I've been 5-6 since I've been at least 17 or 18. I think somebody made a mistake on the measurements.

I like roller coasters that have the one 70-foot drop.

There's a rumor that my great-grandmother was 6'7''. I don't know if it's necessarily true, but that's a big woman.

My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.

When I'm in the game, in the paint, I try to use my height and help the team.

I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.

Lovely high ceilings,' I said. 'If you were very tall, you'd feel quite comfortable in here.

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

I was only 5'10'' until I was a senior in high school.

Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.

Life is short and so am I.

In my family, I'm short.

The bar where I want to get to is astronomically high.

Sometimes just to be there, my size helps me to protect the basket.

I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.

I'm 6ft 7in, so I have a massive bed.

A high-flying politician," Hopkinson wrote, "is I think not unlike a balloon—he is full of inflammability, he is driven along by every current of wind, and those who will suffer themselves to be carried up by them run a great risk that the bubble may burst and let them fall from the height to which a principle of levity had raised them."6

Katz could see that Patty, in the seemingly random life-meanderings that Walter had just described to him, had in fact deliberately been trampling symbols in a cornfield, spelling out a message unreadable to Walter at ground level but clear as could be to Katz at great height. IT'S NOT OVER, IT'S NOT OVER.

Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail.

Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians. By