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Quotes About Size

The smaller guys can be dangerous. Never having been able to rely on their size for intimidation, they have to learn to fight instead. I know because, before filling out in the army, I had been one of them. The
~ Barry Eisler
It was big enough for five village dances and a riot.
~ Barry Hughart
The Statue of Liberty wears size 879 shoes!
~ Bart King
The body was far smaller than the heart it had held
~ Stephen King
Good God, man! That's more than half the length of the Challenger. A creature that size… we'd need a bigger boat.
~ Steve Alten
Hard to get lost on this island, the whole place smaller than back home in Blount County, Tennessee.
~ Steve Berry
My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.
~ Steve Kluger
A city that was ten times larger than its neighbor wasn't ten times more innovative; it was seventeen times more innovative.
~ Steven Johnson
A metropolis fifty times bigger than a town was 130 times more innovative.
~ Steven Johnson
two key preconditions become clear. First, the sheer size of the network: you can't have an epiphany with only three neurons firing.
~ Steven Johnson
When you think about ideas in their native state of neural networks, two key preconditions become clear. First, the sheer size of the network: you can't have an epiphany with only three neurons firing. The network needs to be densely populated.
~ Steven Johnson
The energy analyst Robert Bryce estimates that simply keeping up with the world's increase in energy use would require turning an area the size of Germany into wind farms every year.
~ Steven Pinker
Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!
~ Danny Kaye
No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John
~ Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle
~ Michael Ondaatje
smaller populations are inherently more variable.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
Cuba and Belgium are both countries of modest size, surrounded by large, powerful and often hostile powers.
~ Jose Marti
In 1900, Europe accounted for a quarter of the world's population. By 2060, it may account for just 6%—and almost a third of these will be more than 65 years old." Europe does face severe demographic problems, but the size of a population is not highly correlated with power, and "predictions of Europe's downfall have a long history of failing to materialize.
~ Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Mousewhisker: I just hope hunting in the wind doesn't make us as stunted as WindClan warriors. Leafpool: WindClan warriors are only smaller because their ancestors are smaller, not because of the wind. Mousewhisker: So what made their ancestors smaller? Leafpool: *shrugs* Only StarClan knows. Mousewhisker: It was probably the wind.
~ Erin Hunter
Oh, no," meowed Thornclaw. "There's not enough meat on you to be a decent meal.
~ Erin Hunter
I knew there was probably life elsewhere. But given the vast size and age of the universe, I also knew how astronomically unlikely it was we would ever make contact with it, much less within the narrow window of my own lifetime. We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.
~ Ernest Cline
Furthermore, it is observed in general that the smaller the population size of a species is, the more vulnerable it will be to extinction.
~ Ernst W. Mayr
I was astonished to learn in one of these best-selling books (on church life) that the size of my church parking lot had far more to do with how things fared in my congregation than my choice of texts in preaching. I was being lied to and I knew it.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
A film released in a theatre needs to provide entertainment to more people. It is different with an OTT platform, not just in terms of audience size - it gives space to break more conventions.
~ Dileesh Pothan