Quotes About Size

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence....

R. Buckminster Fuller illustrates the metaprogramming circuit, in his lectures, by pointing out that we feel puny in comparison to the size of the universe, but only our bodies (hardware) are puny. Our minds, he says — by which he means our software — contain the universe, by the act of comprehending it.

Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.

Put this another way: she was only about twelve feet longer than a tennis court. And she had been designed not as a passenger ship, but for cargo.

resources. In terms of size, they number well over

Al's red eyes slid past me to Pierce. Play? he said, his voice dripping with interest. Gordian Nathaniel Pierce's quirks are legendary. Why do you think I want the runt so badly? Size truly doesn't matter if you can do what he can. ~ Algaliarept, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

Ah, Jenks? It's not a lake, it's a friggin' freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. I'm not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas.

I would have sworn fairies were too big to fit into a frog's mouth.

Size 8 women's, and a men's 10.

Aren't Valkyries . . . bigger?" She gave him a look of disgust. "The vampire is turning his nose up?" "No, I didn't mean it like that. It's merely difficult to believe, since you're so small." "Small? I'm almost five and a half feet tall, a very good size for a Valkyrie." Then her expression became one of realization as she said, "I hate being called small.

Are you so very hungry? asked Dorothy, in wonder. You can hardly imagine the size of my appetite, replied the Tiger, sadly. It seems to fill my whole body, from the end of my throat to the tip of my tail. I am very sure the appetite doesn't fit me, and is too large for the size of my body. Some day, when I meet a dentist with a pair of forceps, I'm going to have it pulled. What, your tooth? asked Dorothy. No, my appetite, said the Hungry Tiger.

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

It's a small closet."... "It's a walk-in the size of Rhode Island, " he teased... "Isn't that just like a man to exaggerate the size of something?

Do not think the fairies are always little. Everything is capricious about them, even their size. They seem to take what size or shape pleases them.

There is some evidence that the size of the average Sapiens brain has actually decreased since the age of foraging.

Sociological research has shown that the maximum 'natural' size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals.

Nigeria is too large to manage.....

Seventeen billion dollars, after the many billions of the war itself, seemed outrageous to many frugal Republicans. Marshall defended the size and timing of the requested appropriation.

I was thinking this was a great teaching moment, where they'd finally come to see that even something teeny-tiny can be big enough.

6,500 square feet.

You're not afraid of spiders, are you?" "I tend to get slightly arachnophobic when they're three times the size of me.

Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the whole rearing up behind you, and you become lost in your thoughts in part from the panic of realizing the size of that imagined leviathan.