Quotes About Size

Go out into a big field with a football and plonk it down to represent the sun. Then walk 25 metres away and drop a peppercorn to represent the Earth's size and its distance from the sun. The moon, to the same scale, would be a pinhead, and it would be only 5 centimetres away from the peppercorn. But the nearest other star, Proxima Centauri, to the same scale, would be another (slightly smaller) football located about … wait for it … six and a half thousand kilometres away!

We are at home with objects ranging in size from a few kilometres (the view from a mountaintop) to about a tenth of a millimetre (the point of a pin). Outside this range even our imagination is handicapped, and we need the help of instruments and of mathematics—which, fortunately, we can learn to deploy.

my trillions are American, like all my units: one American trillion is a million millions; an American billion is a thousand millions). Our brains are no better equipped to handle extremes of complexity than extremes of size and the other difficult extremes of physics.

At the end of 1912, then, the United States Navy had in commission six First Generation Dreadnoughts. In all of them, the wing turret was eschewed in favour of centre-line disposition; the turbine had arrived; armour plate and internal subdivision were equal to all but the German Dreadnoughts; the average speed was rather below those of its rivals, the gunpower rather above; in size, the latest pair exceeded that of any other capital ship in the world except the latest British battle cruiser.

How astounding, Andras thought, that a ship that size could shrink to the size of a house, and then to the size of a car; the size of a desk, a book, a shoe, a walnut, a grain of rice, a grain of sand. How astounding that the largest thing he'd ever seen was still no match for the diminishing effect of distance. It made him aware of his own smallness in the world, his insignificance in the face of what might come, and for a moment his chest felt light with panic.

Furthermore, there's marshland on the other side of these hills. No one can even live near it, because the mist produces ill humors. Ill humors? Yes.The entire place is encircled in thick forest, too. She lowered her voice. They say there are wolves there,the size of humans. I like wolves, Dougal said mildly. The larger, the better. She blinked. They're great sport for hunting. And I am an avid hunter. He glanced across her, lingering at certain areas. As you may have guessed.

I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels.

I've heard goldfish grow to the size of their surroundings; so does furniture.

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

I'm a big man and I like big dogs.... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!

An inch in a man's nose is much.

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

You can't throw him back because he doesn't meet the legal size limit.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

Men are boys in bigger packages.

You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span.

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.

It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.

One thing I've learnt about humans: you can't judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.

It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.