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Quotes About Height

So where'd you park the car, Max?' 'I don't know. I couldn't see over the wheel.' 'That's okay. I think I can smell it.
~ Steve Purcell
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
~ Valentina Tereshkova
There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.
~ Lisa Joy
When you have the ball above the net height on grass, it's easier to play, and when the ball comes at you more slowly, it's easier to play. But when a guy hits hard and deep, I think you have to have been out there playing to understand, but it's hard to really hit the ball.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
I'm 5ft 1in and despise being small. People think I'm cute and cuddly, and I'm not.
~ Toyah Willcox
I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league.
~ Freddie Gibbs
I've always wanted to live really high up, and this is the only flat in the building with a balcony, so I feel quite smug up here.
~ Miquita Oliver
There's been one movie star that would not work with me because of my height. I had so many people who had to stand on boxes when they do scenes with me.
~ David Morse
A figure skater, for example, can only spin about four times in the air on the Earth. No skater has ever performed a quintuple jump. This is because the height of the jump is determined by the velocity at takeoff and the strength of gravity.
~ Michio Kaku
An interesting fact is that astronauts become several inches taller in outer space due to the expansion of their spinal columns. Once back on Earth, their height reverts back to normal. Astronauts may also lose 1 percent of their bone mass per month in space. To slow down this loss, they have to exercise at least two hours a day on a treadmill
~ Michio Kaku
I am constantly playing younger. I have a baby face. I'm only five-foot-one, so I am used to playing younger. I love it.
~ Stella Maeve
I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.
~ Danica Patrick
He's got basically the same height and frame as the President," Christian explained, "so we use him for the trial tan, just to make sure there's no temperature issues or electrical glitches." The Knob glanced over at Angie. "Thirteen minutes on my back," he said with a salacious hitch of an eyebrow. "Easy money, babe.
~ Carl Hiaasen
People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.
~ Terry Pratchett
Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!
~ Terry Pratchett
The horsemen came closer. Vimes was not good at horsemen. Something in him resented being addressed by anyone eight feet above the ground. He didn't like the sensation of being looked at by nostrils.
~ Terry Pratchett
Agnes felt that beauty was even more likely to be in the eye of the beholder if the feet of the beholder were on something solid. At ten thousand feet up, the eye of the beholder tends to water.
~ Terry Pratchett
I've never been the type that's been highly athletically talented or can jump that high. I'm a guy who's 6-2.
~ Jay Williams
I can't really say my height has hindered me in the theater, though it really has hindered me in TV. It's just something you have to embrace, your height.
~ Hannah Waddingham
Since kindergarten, I was the shortest kid in class. They always put me toward the front in school pictures, because you couldn't see me if I was in the back. It was kind of funny.
~ Laurie Hernandez
I'm 5 foot, 3 inches. Even if I hit you, I'm probably not going to knock you down.
~ Ashley McBryde
I'm taller than my father, and taller than two of the stones at Ban Drochaid ." "I meant in feet," she clarified. Speaking of the mundane gave her a measure of calm. He eyed his boots a moment and appeared to be doing some rapid calculations.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Where Evangeline came to below his shoulder, Gail was a head taller. An easier distance from which to spit in his eye, he thought spitefully.
~ Kate Noble
She is at least four inches taller than A.J. "But we have a meeting.
~ Gabrielle Zevin