Quotes About Size

Don't take this personally, Kit, but your hands are really big. Did you hassle steer?" "No steer," I say. "Only small-handed men.

A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!

Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate!

Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size

Breitwieser has not requested a lawyer, and Von der Mühll wants to keep it that way, so the detective is playing up his compassion, not his size. Muscle isn't needed here; flattery is.

Strangely enough, the least presidential moments of the visit persuaded some of the Post's editors that Trump wasn't putting on an act for them. Fred Hiatt, the paper's editorial-page editor, had to ask, How could a man running for president justify going on a nationally televised debate and talking about the size of his penis?

Happiness is just a little thing; Humans mostly are too large for it. If you cannot feel the joy of spring Shrink yourself and maybe then you'll fit.

If you can't make it good, make it big.

Sometimes, they just make coffee cups too small.

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

A key tenet of agile estimating and planning is that we estimate size but derive duration.

People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck.

Cats are small lions. Lions are big cats.

The decoupling of power from size, and thus the decoupling of the capacity to use power effectively from the control of a large Weberian bureaucracy, is changing the world. And this decoupling invites a disquieting thought: if the future of power lies in disruption and interference, not management and consolidation, can we expect ever to know stability again?

La desvinculación del poder y el tamaño, y por tanto la desvinculación de la capacidad de usar el poder con eficacia y el control de una gran burocracia weberiana, está transformando al mundo. Y esa separación suscita una idea preocupante: si el futuro del poder está en la perturbación y la interferencia y no en la gestión ni la consolidación, ¿podemos confiar en que alguna vez vuelva a haber estabilidad?

The decoupling of power from size, and thus the decoupling of the capacity to use power effectively from the control of a large Weberian bureaucracy, is changing the world.

Any increase in the relative size of government in the economy, therefore, shifts the societal consumption-investment ratio in favor of consumption, and prolongs the depression.

The constitutional machinery of limited and enumerated powers, separation of powers, and checks and balances all aimed to prevent such an "improper or wicked project," and America's vast size, even in 1787, ensured that a multitude of factions—special interests—would bar any single one from tyrannizing over the others.

The voice says: There is a need for a prophet in the land. Allie thinks, but who? The voice says: Just try it on for size, honey. Remember, if you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.

For the record, the average penis is about 4 inches long when flaccid, 5.7 inches when erect. That's a bit bigger than the gorilla's 3-inch erection, but then there's the blue whale, the world's largest mammal, who has, yes, a 10-foot pole.)

Except for his hands, which belonged on a piece of monumental sculpture, and his small head, he was well proportioned. His muscles were large and round and he had a full, heavy chest. Yet there was something wrong. For all his size and shape, he looked neither strong nor fertile. He was like one of Picasso's great sterile athletes, who brood hopelessly on pink sand, staring at veined marble waves.

sheer volume of the rooms

Thereafter the host took his guests to look at a young wolf which he had got tied to a chain. "He is fed on nothing but raw meat," he explained, "for I want him to grow up as fierce as possible." Then the party inspected a pond in which there were "fish of such a size that it would take two men all their time to lift one of them out." This piece of information was received with renewed incredulity on the part of the brother-in-law.