Height Quotes
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.
I don't think so much anymore. When you're younger, and at your height, then people want you to do that great one again. But seriously, things are forgotten, and that's the truth.
I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.
You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.
As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.
The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.
Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.
When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.
Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep
I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.
A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.
I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.
Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!
The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.
Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be achieved, were woven into the fabric that linked oneself to all. . .
I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.
The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.
I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.
Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.