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Quotes About Size

Thomas: Wow, that treehouse is like twice the size of our actual house. Pam (whispering): Don't say 'like.' Me: Oh, ha ha, let him say what he wants, let's not be-- Thomas: That treehouse is twice the size of our actual house.
~ George Saunders
I hardly dare open my mouth, drawled Gideon, but there is much in what he says, Gaywood. I don't reckon myself a mean shot, but I would think twice before I engaged in pistol-play with Sale. And you won't hit him you know. He is such a little fellow, and you are such a damnably bad shot!
~ Georgette Heyer
Only this flat top is twice as big as a carrier." Benny
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
When I joined Bloomberg, I was especially eager to take advantage of the organization's size. Because I work on a wide variety of stories, bouncing between industries and countries, it's immensely useful to work together with so many journalists with such a wide range of expertise.
~ Mina Kimes
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely have access to the same information security resources as large firms.
~ Dan Lipinski
I've upped my size tremendously. Forearms strength, shoulder strength has gotten crazy strong. I've been working hard on that.
~ Bryson DeChambeau
My size works against me as well, as some players I would just touch and they would fall over to get a free kick.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa
There's only one guy at 170 that's bigger than me, and that's Darren Till.
~ Michael Chiesa
Tim Sylvia is 6-foot-8, 265, and Fedor beat him, so that showed that size doesn't make a big difference.
~ Andrei Arlovski
I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches.
~ Dule Hill
LaGuardia Airport is tiny compared to its sleek modern counterparts, like Atlanta or Denver with their endless parallel runways spread over thousands of acres.
~ Jeanne Marie Laskas
It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.
~ Shaun White
Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton's 'Planet of the Apes.' I'm the tiny little monkey in the background. I met Rick Baker doing that - then, because of my size and the fact I was older than 18, he figured I could double Daveigh Chase in 'The Ring.'
~ Kelly Stables
Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss.
~ Mary Pilon
No matter what, I'll never be tiny.
~ John Pinette
I'm a big guy and I can't have any tiny tattoos.
~ Chris Long
Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to sustain a gram of tissue.
~ Geoffrey West
I think you have to have a bit of an anger-management issue, to be honest with you. Usually, slot guys are a lot smaller and quicker, but at the same time, you have to go in there and block linebackers and safeties, and so you have to be aggressive.
~ Doug Baldwin
I don't like stepping on other people's toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.
~ John Matuszak
The rats we met the size of small dogs and they watched us go by like they'd figured out that what People were for was feeding rats.
~ Sarah Monette
It had been foolish of Dothaw to underestimate Vyell's intiative, but many men looked at his size and the beauty of his face and assumed that there could be nothing but witless amiability behind such a facade, an assumption which Vyell was not above fostering.
~ Sarah Monette
Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.
~ Sarah Palin
Patrick opens his arms about three feet wide and, with one finger pointing up on each hand, tries to show the scope of this thing. I notice that he doesn't look at his hands as he does this, but at the wall behind me. It suddenly occurs to me that when people describe size this way, they're relying on perspective to help them. He's not saying 'It's this big.' He's saying 'It would look this big from here if it was over there.
~ Scarlett Thomas
nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of the
~ Scott Anderson