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Quotes About Size

C'est un bon artisan, laissa tomber sieur Gérald sur le ton qu'aurait pris un maquignon pour affirmer qu'en raison de leur petite taille, les poneys étaient les montures les mieux adaptées aux femmes.
~ Ken Follett
Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Regarding solar power systems, the bigger the system is, the more likely it may go on fire.
~ Steven Magee
We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.
~ William Stafford
By 1300, the size of the tea-drinking elite had expanded somewhat, but these essential characteristics remained the same. Indeed, tea retained its role in gift giving and as a medicine into the present.
~ William Wayne Farris
Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.
~ William Wilberforce
How could I not have known that there are little things the size of "Planck length" in the universe, which are a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter? Imagine if you dropped one in a dark theater how hard it would be to find.
~ Woody Allen
After ~2 years with the iPhone and ~2 weeks with the iPad, it's actually the iPhone that seems like the weird size of the two...
~ Yaron Galai
The fossil record shows that no other species of large-bodied beast—above the size of an ant, say, or of an Antarctic krill—has ever achieved anything like such abundance as the abundance of humans on Earth right now.
~ David Quammen
It comes and it goes. But epidemiologists have recognized that, with measles virus, as with other pathogens, there's a critical minimum size of the host population, below which it can't persist indefinitely as an endemic, circulating infection. This is known as the critical community size (CCS), an important parameter in disease dynamics.
~ David Quammen
Zoe's stepmother was quite short, but she made up for it by being as wide as she was tall.
~ David Walliams
You have large opinions for so small a person.
~ Deanna Raybourn
If you are too big to be impacted by your local church, then maybe you are to small to impact the world.
~ Alin Sav
The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.
~ H. G. Wells
The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It is the size of the characters' desires that helps to make a sad story a tragedy.
~ Jean Hegland
Size matters not. Inertia, however, is a pain in the butt." -Mander Zuma
~ Jeff Grubb
Era un fragmento diminuto del universo, pero también era exactamente del tamaño del universo
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
White Acre was not, in fact, a very large place.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
She ducked her head, studying his fingers, spreading them against her own, comparing their lengths. His hand dwarfed hers.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
She measured 144 feet over-all, with a 25-foot beam
~ Alfred Lansing
I had the brain for football, but I didn't have the height. So I started using my brain to overcome those weaknesses and discovered football isn't just about size or power: it's about what's up there. That was the making of me.
~ Ashley Young
Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government.
~ Robert Reich
I think guys don't always realize that clothing that fits is actually more comfortable than clothing that doesn't fit. I think guys do sometimes wear clothing that is too big.
~ Thom Browne