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Quotes About Tall

Moshe was a tall Israeli with an ear-splitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness. Hearing the laugh made me blink instinctively, like hearing a hammer pound on brick or metal. Our conversation was impeded by having to watch him through the strobe effect of my convulsing eyes.
~ Alex Garland
He was very tall, with long arms and legs that would be gawky and awkward on anyone else, but were graceful and elegant on his lean, muscular form. He had a wild thatch of wheat blond hair that was forever sticking out in all directions, brown eyes so rich and warm they rivaled even the most decadent melted chocolate, and a ridiculously charming, crooked grin that always made her secretly wonder what trouble he was about to get into... and wish, desperately, that she could join him.
~ Donna Kauffman
He'd write a character for himself. His character would be tall, much taller than he is now. And his sisters would recognize him as dashing. He'd have personal freedom, his own, a way to escape, to escape from them all.
~ Douglas A. Martin
all the tall mad mountains of her mind
~ Anne Carson
Au groupe s'est jointe une jeune femme blonde, très grande, mince.
~ Annie Ernaux
He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I thought to myself, What should I do for a living so that I can keep feeding myself? And I thought, Oh, I'm tall, so why not give modeling a try?
~ HoYeon Jung
I'm 6ft 7in and I was a bit like a giraffe on the tennis court, though I did play at county level.
~ Peter Jones
he'd looked as tall and cool as ever, but a faint panicked light in his blue eyes had put her oddly in mind of a cat that had just had an inadvertent ride in a dryer.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Her eyes were huge and gold and molten. You did say you liked to practice what you were great at. Miles had never realized how susceptible he was to flattery from tall women. A weakness he must guard against. Sometime. They retired to his cabin and practiced assiduously till halfway to Escobar.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
It was a dark shadow figure, six-foot tall, yet I could see through it, and it was bending over one of the bagged bodies.
~ Loren W. Christensen
he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self…
~ Louisa May Alcott
He was a tall, thin stork of a man who stalked into my office, disapproval etched into every line of his body. His head was small, the hair so closely cropped that you couldn't help noticing his compact, neat ears. His face bore so few distinguishing characteristics I thought that if you tried to describe him you'd end up noting his impeccable posture and that he was very, very clean.
~ Ruth Reichl
I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.
~ Mitt Romney
jeune homme de dix-huit à vingt ans, grand, svelte
~ Alexandre Dumas
The house itself was tall and tilty, with green glass in the windows
~ Alice Hoffman
in the garden where the lilacs were so tall it was impossible to see the road. The leaves were dusty, the way they always were in August when the weather turned hot.
~ Alice Hoffman
She look so stylish it like the trees all round the house draw themself up tall for a better look.
~ Alice Walker
He was as tall as Lincoln and just as dead.
~ Joe Hill
was tall in a way she associated with fun-house mirrors: rail-thin legs and arms that went on forever.
~ Joe Hill
I'm freakishly tall, so finding pants that fit is something I've struggled with my whole life.
~ Karlie Kloss
This one's pretty good too," Crashpad said, holding up a boxed set. "These brothers hunt monsters and they drive around the country in this Impala and the tall one has demon blood but he—
~ Eden Robinson
He was a tall, burly, youngish man in plain clothes whose features some freak of heredity had assembled into a perpetual expression of muted alarm, so that to be in his company was like consorting with a man dogged by assassins.
~ Edmund Crispin
What it would be like to spend ten years in this tall narrow house, shuttered from the world, studying its secrets and reading its volumes and looking at this girl.
~ Anthony Doerr