Quotes About Height

I'm a master of heels. I'm used to them. I'm tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I'm over the top, but not that much yet.

When the ball is up in the air for a rebound you always have to be on your toes to go up for the ball. It's the same situation in football as a receiver; I'm always trying to get the ball at the highest point like a rebound.

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

Q: Why is there no Disneyland in China? A: No one's tall enough to go on the rides.

Q: How many alto singers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None. They can't reach that high.

[The wall will be] ten feet taller. And every time they [Mexicans] protest, it's going to go up a little bit higher.

The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.

When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone, and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

Me, I'm known for bruises and levelheadedness, for height and muscle and blasphemy, and the occasional sentimentality.

LA LADRONA DE LIBROS» ÚLTIMA LÍNEA «He odiado las palabras y las he amado, y espero haber estado a su altura.»

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La triangulación es el método del cartógrafo. Si conoce la posición y la altura de dos lugares y ve un tercero, puede establecer su correspondiente posición y altura. Los mapas son eso: triángulos invisibles.

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom.

He was shorter than an average eight-year-old boy but exceptionally tall for a tulip.

Everything leads to this, he thought. To this elevation. If it's how dying feels, everyone should be glad to go.

What must it be like for a suicide coming down from a high ledge? I'm sure it must be a very sane feeling. That's probably why they scream all the way down.

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Six thousand feet above men and time ...

Pepy was six feet tall, with shoulders

who seemed to have grown his afro to new and previously unexplored heights, inspiring Norman Mailer to write that King looked like a man falling down an elevator shaft, "whoosh went the hair up from his head

Physically, the taller you are the more you look down on others. Morally, the reverse is the case. The more we look up to others, the higher we stand. For us, as for God, greatness is humility.

He [the Emperor] is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.