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Quotes About Tall

There's a rumor that my great-grandmother was 6'7''. I don't know if it's necessarily true, but that's a big woman.
~ Mohamed Bamba
Q]uantum physics is not replaced by another sort of physics at large scales. It actually gives rise to classical physics. Our everyday, commonsense reality is, in this view, simply what quantum mechanics looks like when you're six feet tall.
~ Philip Ball
I don't know why, but I love sunflowers, and I just have this vivid memory of being in a field of sunflowers and how they felt like trees. They felt so tall.
~ Oksana Masters
I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.
~ Bridgette Wilson
Beyonce has long, muscular legs but is tall, thin, and very curvy, even voluptuous.
~ Tina Knowles
You know my wife, she's 6 ft 1 she can beat anyone up.
~ Rod Stewart
Flirtation, so effortlessly accomplished. Mention of the train had done it. Train unspecified; they both knew which. They'd ridden together and now shared the ferry, and though a thousand identical to her might have strolled past his Charlottenburg café window in two weeks, the shared destination worked its paltry magic. And both tall. This little was enough to excuse lust as destiny.
~ Jonathan Lethem
I'm the hidden bug in the tall weeds, lighting fires no one can see.
~ Ada Limón
I was in Starbucks and the person in front of me said: 'Can I have a tall, skinny, black Americano please?' I said: 'Are you ordering coffee or voting in the U.S. elections?'
~ Michael McIntyre
When I came out to Hollywood in 1985, I thought that I would be sitcom star. I'm a tall, skinny, goofy guy. I thought that I would make a great funny neighbor, or wacky office mate, in a sitcom.
~ Doug Jones
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.
~ Tyson Chandler
I'm scared of high buildings.
~ Udo Kier
The sun was low; and leaning forward side by side, they seemed to be tugging painfully uphill their two ridiculous shadows of unequal length, that trailed behind them slowly over the tall grass without bending a single blade.
~ Joseph Conrad
Physically as well as psychologically, Dickinson was the opposite of Adams: tall and gaunt, with a somewhat ashen complexion and a deliberate demeanor that conveyed the confidence of his social standing in the Quaker elite and his legal training at the Inns of Court in London.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
When the shows begin in Milan for the season, every woman and girl in modeling heads there, along with every woman and girl who's ever dreamed of becoming a model. Suddenly the city is mobbed by extremely tall mutant women, running everywhere like ants.
~ Waris Dirie
With his pewter-colored locks and sturdy jaw, Graham Seymour was the archetypal British civil servant, a man who'd been born, bred, and educated to lead. He was handsome, but not too; he was tall, but not remarkably so. He made others feel inferior, especially Americans.
~ Daniel Silva
Mike Rondeau, a tall drink of a man sloshed into a squat glass, with a belt that could double as a lasso and a volume of ambitious lies that he called his life, came in the door and laughed.
~ Daniel Woodrell
Neil shook hands with Marco, and then Sarah followed suit. "Just don't start with the tall jokes, okay?" Neil asked. "Let's leave that behind us." Marco grinned. "No problem," he said. "I never make jokes about a man I always look up to.
~ David Archer
I looked him up and down. There was a lot of "up" to look at. This kid was tall, all right.
~ James Preller
I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say Meet under the clock tower, or Meet under the War Memorial, but Meet under Adams.
~ Douglas Adams
MacDuff I knew at Cambridge." "Oh, you did, did you? Describe him." "Tall. Tall and absurdly thin. And good-natured. A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey—a non-preying mantis if you like. A sort of pleasant genial mantis that's given up preying and taken up tennis instead.
~ Douglas Adams
One, a young man, was tall, thin and angular; even muffled inside a heavy dark coat he walked a little like an affronted heron. The
~ Douglas Adams
Which is that there's too much weight improperly distributed: towers and elevators; steel, stone and cement. So much mass up so high that gravity itself could end up being warped--
~ Douglas Coupland
Temple was a tall girl of thirty-two or three. She had a certain smartness—her hair was well brushed and glossy, but she was not pretty. Her manner was calm and efficient. "M.
~ Agatha Christie