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Quotes About Size

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
~ Samuel Johnson
I took a rant-sized breath.
~ Scott Westerfeld
peeps cant turn into anything smaller than what they are. where would the extra mass go
~ Scott Westerfeld
The size of a human cell is to that of a person as a person's size is to that of Rhode Island. Likewise, a virus is to a person as a person is to the earth; an atom is to a person as a person is to the earth's orbit around the sun; and a proton is to a person as a person is to the distance to Alpha Centauri.
~ John Allen Paulos
Nature has achieved nothing quite as preposterous as an adolescent moose, his head as big as a beer keg with antlers the size of oven mitts.
~ John Balzar
Hold him till we get there, comrade," said another, who then appeared to reconsider. "Hang on, how big is he?" The dwarf examined David. "Not very big," he said. "Dwarf and a half. Dwarf and two-thirds at most.
~ John Connolly
We have seen that the process of stellar alchemy takes time – billions of years of it. And because our Universe is expanding it needs to be billions of light years in size if it is to have enough time to produce the building blocks for living complexity. A universe that was only as big as our Milky Way galaxy, with its 100 billion stars, would be little more than a month old.
~ John D. Barrow
The quantum wavelength of a particle gets smaller the more massive the particle. Situations are dominated by quantum waviness when the quantum wavelength of their participants exceeds their physical size. Everyday objects, like cars and speeding cricket balls, have such high masses that their quantum wavelengths are vastly smaller than their sizes and we can forget about quantum influences when driving cars or watching cricket matches.
~ John D. Barrow
The size of your promise defines the size of your life.
~ Roger J. Hamilton
I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.
~ Laurence Olivier
do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
~ Ann Bridge
Too tall, standing up. In bed he was very much the right size.
~ Eileen Wilks
Despite its lack of size, the bee makes fine honey.
~ Einhard
People often extending their support to a person forms a comprehensive report about his or her level of mind power through their weighted arithmetic mean brain size as who he or she is-Wise Or Otherwise.
~ Anuj Somany
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.
~ Aristotle
If I had grown earlier, maybe I would have stuck with football. Maybe. But I was just too small. I was quick, I could outrun people, but if anyone ever got a hand on me, I was done.
~ DeAndre Yedlin
A band like Avenged Sevenfold I've praised quite a bit publicly, because it's a band that has moved into that arena-size thing for a hard rock band.
~ Andy Biersack
I've always been a guy - I ran my mouth in NXT about the little guys who come through, and they are tough and feisty or whatever it is. To me, they're no more dangerous than a little chihuahua.
~ Baron Corbin
Saturn is accompanied by a very large and diverse collection of moons. They range in size from a few kilometers across to as big across as the U.S.
~ Carolyn Porco
A lot of sports cars are just not designed for the larger gentleman.
~ Chris Harris
Being the Manchester United goalkeeper is one of the most difficult jobs in football when you look at the size of the club and the goalkeepers who have been here before. There is a lot of pressure on you, but I have worked hard to cope with that.
~ David de Gea
Ogres weren't dangerous only because of their size and their cruelty. They knew your secrets just by looking at you, and they used their knowledge.
~ Gail Carson Levine
It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
~ Dave Barry
My sole goal when getting ready for a contest was not building a lot of size, although when I was coming up pure muscle size was still very important. I was always really concerned about coming in very sharp conditioning wise.
~ Dorian Yates