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Quotes About Tall

The Golden Gate Bridge was a tall orange suspension bridge that connected the city of Don Francisco to the Marin Headlands on the other side. It had been built millennia ago by some ancient civilization
~ Alan Gratz
His body was massive, easily thirty feet tall, and shaped like a man's, though the legs had a decidedly animal shape, like a goat's or horse's, with a stifle and hock, rather than with hip and knee.
~ Raymond E. Feist
His tall, lanky body had the wrinkles of sleep, and he smelled like cotton and dreams.
~ Rebecca Wells
There were a few things she knew about Will Trent. He was tall, at least six-three, with a runner's lean body and the most beautiful legs she had ever seen on a man. His mother had been killed when he was less than a year old. He'd grown up in a children's home and never been adopted. He was a special agent with the GBI. He was one of the smartest men she had ever met, and he was so dyslexic that, as far as she could tell, he read no higher than a second-grade level.
~ Karin Slaughter
I dribble rhymes like basketball... People call me 'E.T.' What's that, Shaq man? 'Extra Tall.'
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
~ Bill Condon
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
~ Ernie Harwell
The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.
~ J. K. Rowling
Researchers in England say tall men are more likely to have more children than short men. Here in America we call that the NBA theory.
~ Jay Leno
For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
~ Lisa Leslie
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.
~ Isak Dinesen
As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.
~ Curtis Armstrong
Being tall is an advantage especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
~ Julia Child
Storm clouds look dark because they are tall and thick. The water droplets inside block out light from the sun.
~ Will Osborne
Vandenhoff disliked standing with or even near tall men.
~ William Hallstead
he was tall and lean, had hollow cheeks, thick pale lips, and a nose like a big ragged chunk of granite shoved into his face. His
~ William Kent Krueger
You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.
~ Paul Hoffman
I just like boys who are good-looking, really! I like people who are tall with a good sense of style. My faves are the indie look, the smart look or the surfer look.
~ Pixie Lott
The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.
~ Felicia Hemans
Get out of here. Yoda so does not have an English accent!''Other than that you're saying I'm a dead ringer?''If the shoe fits.''Sheesh, I hate tall girls.
~ Joss Stirling, Finding Sky
I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
~ Patrick Ewing
The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.
~ Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Let's live suddenly without thinking. Let's live like the light that kills. And let's as silence, because Whirl's after all: (after me) love, and after you. I occasionally feel vague how vague I don't know tenuous Now - spears and The Then - arrows making do our mouths, something red, something tall.
~ E.E. Cummings
But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.
~ Dar Williams