Quotes About Stature

There are not many intellectuals left of Harold Pinter's stature who dare raise their voices - and with such force - against the menace of U.S. and the unrestricted use of its power. Pinter's voice is an unceasing thunder.

What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.

I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and gives them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune...

is to make them grow tall. For it contributes to height of stature when the vitality is not impeded and hindered by a mass of nourishment which forces it into thickness and width

I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.

Vajpayee had a much bigger stature than Mr Modi. He knew how to run a coalition government very successfully.

Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they're icons; they loom large in our imaginations. But the truth of the matter is both women were diminutive.

As far as his contemporaries were concerned, there was no question about his stature in American history. In the extravaganza of mourning that occurred in more than four hundred towns and hamlets throughout the land, he was described as the only indisputable hero of the age, the one and only "His Excellency.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

the book of Matthew and read from chapter 6, verse 27: "'Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

I looked him up and down. There was a lot of "up" to look at. This kid was tall, all right.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

Bond believes that short people cause all the trouble in the world.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

To many Native American tribes the Grand Canyon is a sacred place: site of numerous origin myths from the Havasupai to the Zuni; hushed repose of the Hopi dead. If I were forced to choose a religion, that's the kind of religion I could go for. The Grand Canyon confers stature on a religion, outclassing the petty smallness of the Abrahamics, the three squabbling cults which, through historical accident, still afflict the world.

I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

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

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.