Tall Quotes

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.

I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.

There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.

I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.

Stand tall and believe in yourself

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

I dribble rhymes like basketball... People call me 'E.T.' What's that, Shaq man? 'Extra Tall.'

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful. Tall or short, straight hair or curly, it doesn't matter.

A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

My brother then opened a tall man's shop in Tokyo.

Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

I am too tall [to dance]. Tall people don’t dance. It’s just not right.

I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough

If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that.

I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.

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.

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.

Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown. He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

We won with the military. We won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated. But we won with everything, tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people just won.

I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you.

Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.

At school I got harassed so badly for being too tall, too thin, too pale - too everything that has gotten me where I am now, which is quite ironic.

Walk tall; look the world in the eye.

My God. Is there some unwritten law that you guys have to be giants? (Amanda) What can I say? Artemis likes her Dark-Hunters tall. Short men need not apply. (Acheron)

As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?

My wife asks me, when I get home from auditions, if they asked how tall I am. And if I say "Yes," then she says, "Okay, you didn't get that job."

I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.