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Quotes About Size

Nothing less than 7 inches.
~ Cassandra Clare
The horse grunted softly. He had huge teeth, Clary noticed uneasily; each one the size of a Pez dispenser. She imagined those teeth sinking into her leg and thought of all the girls she'd known in middle school who'd wanted ponies of their own. She wondered if they were insane.
~ Cassandra Clare
Oh, its big enough," he said patronizingly, "but somehow I was expecting…you know." He gestured with his hands, indicating something roughly the size of a house cat. "It's the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toilet Bowl," said Isabelle. -Jace & Isabelle, pg.349-
~ Cassandra Clare
Pines and spruces can't be sheared like yew or hemlock, but they are stately in large landscapes, where their eventual size is a plus. (But they are a nightmare in small yards, where their eventual size is like having a brontosaurus nesting in the front yard.)
~ Cassandra Danz
The girl is half my size. I think I can handle her without calling council." "You disappoint me, Hunter. Where is the patience you show with the wild horses you train? Has it gone the way of the wind?" "A horse is worth the trouble. A yellow-hair is not.
~ Catherine Anderson
She was a slightly built woman, narrow of hip. He was not a small man.
~ Catherine Anderson
I can handle her until she gets used to me." "She's a fighter." "And I am twice her size." Hunter almost wished he could go on this walk. It might prove interesting. Little did Swift Antelope know how useless strength could be when tussling with a frightened female.
~ Catherine Anderson
It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The therapist had an enormous face. I wondered if this was a problem for her, since Korean women are so self-conscious about the size of their faces that they will go under the knife to shave their jawlines down (a common Korean compliment: "Your face is so small it's the size of a fist!").
~ Cathy Park Hong
Yes, he was an old man but, gosh, those muscled limbs of his, the strength in them. She remembered how vast he had seemed, nude in the little cottage bedroom, like a giant folded up and tucked into a shoebox.
~ Gerard Woodward
Linux addresses this issue by adopting an empirical rule related to the processor's cache size: the larger the processor's cache, the longer a process will wait for a piece of time on that processor.
~ Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci
If you only want to make average market returns, then scale your positions to a very small size, and your portfolio will act very much like a market index.
~ Gil Morales
With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
Theophilo. To come then to the discovery of that which we seek. I say that if in the first efficient Cause there be infinite power, there is also action from which there resulteth a universe of infinite size and worlds infinite in number.
~ Giordano Bruno
Elpino. But since the greatness of God lieth not at all in corporeal size (not to mention that our world doth add nothing to him) so also we should not conceive the greatness of his image to consist in the greater or lesser extent of the size thereof.
~ Giordano Bruno
Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.
~ Glenn Beck
A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.
~ Author Unknown
Don't argue with an 18-wheeler.
~ Author Unknown
Physically, our home is small and the rest of the world is large — but in our hearts, it's the other way around.
~ Terri Guillemets
Honey," he said, "you ain't no bigger than a minute." She sighed. "Sometimes a minute can be a mighty powerful thing.
~ James Baldwin
As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane metaphorically described the advantages of smallness: "You can drop a mouse down a thousandyard mineshaft; and on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man broken, a horse splashes."3
~ James C. Scott
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Most people don't do front squats because they're uncomfortable, and there are easier alternatives, but to really add size to the quads, they're a must.
~ Phil Heath