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Quotes About Size

How would something the size of a Mini get out of a dinosaur's arsehole?' 'How big was a dinosaur's arsehole?' Theo asked, as he grabbed a fourth champagne and passed a second to Eve. 'Are you some kind of arsehole expert, Jay?
~ Robert Muchamore
Magnum condoms are a marketing gimmick, because what guy is going to admit he doesn't require them? "No thanks. They're so big on me, I need to use a twist tie."
~ Robert Schimmel
If the shoe does not fit, one cannot wear it, no matter who made it for you
~ Robin Hobb
enough to live in the boundary layer is a distinct advantage. Mosses have found the microhabitats where their size becomes an asset.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Her tiny butt
~ Lisi Harrison
How big can a giant Japanese spider crab grow?" "Ten feet," I said instantly. "Very good. Hm. What color is a banded butterfly fish?" "Black and silver. Too easy!" "Too pointless, more like," Mom said under her breath.
~ Liz Kessler
Things seem more when you're little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.
~ Lois Lowry
Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called COLOR.
~ Lois Lowry
There is something comforting, thinks Mack, in embracing someone the same size as you.
~ Lorrie Moore
traveling so far across the country with this large woman, not fat mind you, but broad in the shoulder and beam, and strong.
~ Louis L'Amour
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
~ Ronald Reagan
No government has ever voluntarily reduced itself in size—and that, in a way, became my theme.
~ Ronald Reagan
Before Elfrida Phipps left London for good and moved to the country, she made a trip to Battersea Dogs' Home, and returned with a canine companion. It took a good, and heart-rending, half hour of searching, but as soon as she saw him, sitting very close to the bars of his kennel and gazing up at her with dark and melting eyes, she knew he was the one. She did not want a large animal, nor did she relish the idea of a yapping lap dog. This one was exactly the right size. Dog size.
~ Rosamund Pilcher
For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem.
~ Russell Banks
The old Mauser was too long, too big, and too heavy for a child. A child's small arm could not reach freely for the trigger, and he had difficulty taking aim. Modern design has solved these problems, eliminated the inconveniences. The dimensions of weapons are now perfectly suited to a boy's physique, so much so that in the hands of tall, massive men, the new guns appear somewhat comical and childish.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Do not make the mistake, it said, speaking perfect English, of equating size with power. Or you might find a cricket squashing you under its thumb.
~ Salman Rushdie
The full-range-of-m otion exercise known as the squat is the single most useful exercise in the weight room, and our most valuable tool for building strength, power, and size.
~ Mark Rippetoe
There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
~ Arthur Scargill
Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.
~ Richard Branson
The moon came up through the black trees on top of the rocks, and looked so huge, so solemn and thrilling, that there were cries of amazement. What's that? And even when it had climbed higher in the sky and shrunk to a more normal size people acknowledged it from time to time, saying 'the harvest moon' or 'did you see it when it first came up?
~ Alice Munro
Teddy Shoes, where you could buy patent-leather pumps with a kitten heel in men's thirteen.
~ Allegra Goodman
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If the measure of a man was the size of his hat, these were great men indeed.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He gave you the talent you need, the creativity, the strength. You're the right size, and you have the right looks, the right personality, and the right family. You didn't get shortchanged. You are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.
~ Joel Osteen