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Quotes About Size

By the time I got home, the hat had flopped over my ears. It was a bit too big, I felt. "It's no tragedy. So long as it isn't too tight," said Mama, pulling the hat over my nose. "Just don't keep taking it off and putting it on. Don't touch it. Wear it well.
~ Sholem Aleichem
But to all of this the land itself remain sturdily indifferent and unmoved, the human behavior played out on its surfaces merely trivia. Except, of course, where human behavior induces changes to the ferocity of the weather and the levels of the sea, and land may then fall victim to the climate, and has to alter its shape and size as a result.
~ Simon Winchester
Why, America's the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country's too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn't happen here!
~ Sinclair Lewis
A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.
~ John Steinbeck
People seldom realize just how gigantic the old steam locomotives were until they stand next to one, and
~ John Varley
The linear size of a neuron varies widely from one nerve cell to the other, since some of these cells are contained in closely integrated large aggregates and have, therefore, very short axons, while others conduct pulses between rather remote parts of the body and may, therefore, have linear extensions comparable to those of the entire human body.
~ John von Neumann
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?
~ Emil Cioran
Mrs. Littnauer must have brought thirty dresses back to the fitting room for me to try on. But most of them weren't right on me. I was sixteen years old and a size sixteen, not, after all, a very promising combination. There was one rose velvet thing with a white lace collar and cuffs, cut in a princess line, which didn't look bad, but there was nothing at all sophisticated about it ... 'Put me in a pair of Mary Janes and I'll look like a five-year-old from Brobdingnag,' I said.
~ Barbara Cohen
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
~ barrie j m iii
I have little interest in streamlining the government or in making it more efficient, for I intend to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
~ Barry Goldwater
This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.
~ Steve Mariucci
With my size and receiving skills, I would hope I could cause some matchup problems for defenses, and that some team sees that.
~ Greg Olsen
My hands aren't even that big.
~ Mark Hunt
Marc Gasol, he's one of the hardest people to guard. His ability to pass, shoot, and his size is something that can be a benefit to him a lot.
~ Karl-Anthony Towns
I know many great actors who have small heads.
~ Catherine Keener
And there were the health benefits of being slimmer. My size made me more likely to get type 2 diabetes and perhaps even cancer, and could have affected my fertility.
~ Layla Moran
Cyborg is way heavier, way bigger than me.
~ Amanda Nunes
I'm a pretty big guy so heavyweight for me it comes very naturally.
~ Alexander Gustafsson
I think 205 is the place for me. I walk around at 225, 230 at the most, and that's kind of small for a heavyweight. I think 205 is where I'll be.
~ Ryan Bader
Would I take Conor McGregor? No, he's a lot shorter than me. I don't think we'd be allowed fight - a heavyweight and a lightweight.
~ Sheamus
I can't think of any heavyweights that would match up well with me. They're all too big.
~ Jimi Manuwa
People don't usually have long careers as heavyweights because they mature into the role. Look at amateur wrestling, you don't usually see guys go to heavyweight as freshman. I was just blessed that even though I wasn't as big as some of the other guys, I was able to step in right away at heavyweight.
~ Frank Mir
I have big hands - I wear either a XXXL or XXL glove. I have a 6-8 wingspan on a 5-11 body - I can dunk. My wingspan allows me to do a lot of things that other people at my height might not be able to do.
~ Odell Beckham, Jr.
Is that all the philosophy you have gained in one-and-twenty years? said she. Form is much, but size is nothing.
~ George MacDonald