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Quotes About Tall

That was the next-to-last time I felt any desire. And he was pale and tall (how disgusting tall men are, such a waste of space and flesh, so uncompact). (I am hideous myself now. Discovered in new, M.C., mirror that skin is a jungle of pearly stretch marks all over. Face sags too. Always new awful discoveries. If could only vomit up age like the food I relentlessly wolf.)
~ Unknown
Here, where a thousand captains swore grand conquest… tall grass their monument
~ Matsuo Bash?
I'd known Charlize since the mid-1990s, when she dated a friend of mine, and I'd met John recently. They were both very tall and they looked slightly awkward, like hyper-attractive praying mantises, folded into two of the small plastic chairs next to the picnic table.
~ Moby
But the photograph hints, too, at another story. I can see it in the tall grass brushing her ankles, the blades bent as if moved by wind.
~ Natasha Trethewey
Guy was crazy tall, lean, and scruffy. With just his sandals and a richly colored pair of baggies on, he left little to the imagination. Needless to say,
~ Unknown
Hild was recognized: a tall maid with fathomless eyes, a very big knife and the pig's blood still on her skirts.
~ Nicola Griffith
She felt taller than an oak, taller than an elm. They would sing songs of the king's seer, the queen of wyrd.
~ Nicola Griffith
My mother will emerge with a towel on her head, Nefertiti fashion, and a good terry-cloth robe, and make herself a tall gin-and-tonic and look like a movie star for an hour. Being around her is like being on safari; there is an elusive something we are after, in difficult conditions, and we will look good in the getting there.
~ Padgett Powell
Wait," I said. "Leo. Leo. Chicago." Then it came to me. "Leo James? Looks as though he ought to be a Nordic skiing champion? Tall, long, and blond.
~ Patricia Briggs
I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall.
~ Patricia MacLachlan
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
Very tall with red hair and freckles. Clear marks of a hooligan.
~ Percival Everett
She returned her attention to the tall captain. She was annoyed at the way his gaze seemed to be fastened on her breasts.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites—a head taller than any of the people.
~ 1 Samuel 9:2