Quotes About Height

Katharine Hepburn is tall—not as tall as she thinks she is, but tall.

What makes you an adult? he said & I said it's mainly a height requirement & the willingness to keep quiet when people say stupid things. —Adult Club

I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!

For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blankets between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.

straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!

It is the closest place to the stars on Earth. (Kalkan)

The Premier League is not easy for young players because it is very hard, very tough. Most of the players are very tall.

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

It's tricky territory, height and co-stars. The only thing I can say is that it's never been an issue in my life.

Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it.

I've always had trouble with long guys because as a shorter guy I have smaller explosive movements and a lot of long guys I can get trapped inside of them.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

No lowlander horse could clear this wall, but Havok stood at twenty-six hands—almost twice the height and mass of the lowlander breeds—and, muscles bunching, legs gathering, the huge destrier leapt, sailing over the wall effortlessly.

The higher the street, the loftier and more abstract its creativity.

He drifted into his memories then, and Sarpanita's mind was filled with dusty images, like ancient paintings hung too long in the light. She fell into the dream of them, lived them; saw Shemyaza as a young man, heard his laughter. He was beautiful in the alien way of the Annage, with the incredible height and in his long, serpent face. She knew that Penemue had loved him as more than a brother. He showed her their love-making and she could witness it without shyness.

Once our long bones have finished growing (usually by around the age of fifteen or sixteen in girls and eighteen or nineteen in boys), we will have reached the maximum height we are ever going to be.

believe it or not, our height varies according to the time of day: we are on average half an inch shorter by the time we go to bed than we were when we got up. We lose most of that height within three hours of rising, as our cartilages settle and compress and decrease our joint spaces.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand.

Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.