Quotes About Size

It's the first novel [ Satyricon by Petronius] in which the size of a male character's genitals is noted, a detail you hardly ever get in George Eliot's novels.

I was arrested for selling illegal-size paper.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

Cross-country skiing is fine as long as you live in a small country.

I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed.

Moscow," he said, "was built to make people feel small against the magnificence of the revolution. The streets are eight lanes wide, the statues are five stories high, the buildings are as big as mountains. But this—look at it, Shemenkov

Measured my 'thing'. It was eleven centimetres.

English football's history is so rich and the size of the clubs around, the so-called big six, are so big that it is difficult to break into that for a club like Leicester.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

When people heard id Software's being acquired, everybody just assumed it would be Activision or EA. Why would we even consider going with a publisher that wasn't of that same size?

I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!

I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.

The public at large thinks that government is too big.

People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.

Els dits humans poden notar el tacte d'objectes de fins a tretze nanòmetres, cosa que significa que si tinguéssim un dit de la mida de la Terra podríem notar la diferència entre un estable i un cavall.

He had seen lakes and rivers, but Connla had never seen an ocean, and its very size was beyond his comprehension.  "Where does it end?" he asked Blathine.  "It does not end. The ocean is everything. All the land is merely an interruption in the sea."  Her words made no sense; such things could not be possible.

tap out a single grain of salt from a shaker. You could line up about ten skin cells along one side of it. You could line up about a hundred bacteria. Compared to viruses, however, bacteria are giants. You could line up a thousand viruses alongside that same grain of salt.

Seers can see, for instance, the light of the scarabs' emanations expanding to great size.

Jill is mine and Polly's only living relative and she has come to Burnt Boot to work for us. And this bunkhouse is big enough for the two of you. Sawyer wasn't too sure about that last statement. The bunkhouse had looked huge when he moved in, but a woman living in it would damn sure make it smaller in a hurry. Travis Tritt's old song TROUBLE played through his mind.

Are you and Finn more than boss and hired hand? You might say that. My ranch is bigger than his, Quaid teased. It's not the size of the ranch, darlin;. It's the heart that runs it, she answered.

Nancy scanned the buildings and found that this one was the largest on the street. It was

The American alligator has a much broader snout than the crocodile, and is less vicious and active. The two reptiles are about equal in size and can grow up to twelve feet in length, but the croc weighs about a third less than the 'gator.

In the United States both plates and portions have increased dramatically over time. A really good nudge would be to make them smaller.