Quotes About Size

We have the whole pool to ourselves," said Arthur. "It's a good thing, too," said D.W. "Our bathtub is bigger than this!

Carver turned away, stepped up to the counter, got a large cup of black coffee, and Lucas thought, Scalding hot coffee. Carver was a big guy, thick through the chest, but moved easily, comfortable with his size. Lucas wondered, if it came to a fistfight, if he could take him; and he decided he could. Lucas watched as Carver got his coffee and crossed to Lucas's table, put the coffee on the table, and sat down and asked, "What is this bullshit?

Well, let's start with the big one," Creek said. "You're your own nation." Robin considered that for a moment. "For your sake, that had better not be a comment about the size of my ass," she said.   The

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Then the soldiers went to Mexico and it was a kind of painful picnic. Nobody knows why you go to a picnic to be uncomfortable when it is so easy and pleasant to eat at home. The Mexican War did two good things though. We got a lot of western land, damn near doubled our size, and besides that it was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murder settled on us the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

The brontosaurus had thirty-ton body and a two-ounce brain. The anatosaurus had two thousand teeth. Triceratops had a helmet of filled bone seven feet long. Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms and teeth like six-inch razors and it was elected President. It ate everything—dead meat, living meat, old bones—

the books of the 1920s and '30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type.

Their houses are the size of small airplane hangars; their carved

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

You really should play with someone your own size, you know.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

O to be a dragon,a symbol of the power of Heaven—of silkwormsize or immense; at times invisible.Felicitous phenomenon!

I marked the extraordinary lightness of the thing. It was necessary; the weight of an ordinary bone would never have allowed something so large as a dragon to fly.

Larger than a pea? Oh, it most certainly was.

Frankly, I don't see the advantage being gargantuan will get me, not when I have to run errands around people I know." "Yeah, that might be a problem. Scaring the mailman won't win you any favors around town." Caitlyn grinned. -Kelly & Caitlyn

Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.

'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

Your pot belly, I'd give that a 10 for size.

I believe in monsters. Monsters are the calories in food. Monsters are the size of my jeans. Monsters are the self hatred in me. Monsters are judgemental teenage girls.

You know what they say about men with big feet...big socks.

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

The great hope of the Tet Offensive was that its very size and daring would trigger a surge of nationalism that would transcend barriers of ideology, class, and faith.