Tall Quotes

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.

The weird thing about all the drag queen Patsys and Eddies from "Absolutely Fabulous" is they are so beautiful, and so tall, and so slim that it sort of puts us to shame.

If I run I lose so much weight, which I need because you're limited on weight when you are a tall driver. And have you seen marathon runners? They're quite skinny.

I like stripper shoes. I like being tall because I'm claustrophobic.

John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

If I'm a criminal, and I'm confronted with a 7-foot tall cop and an albino cop, I'm gonna be so lost, I'm spilling my guts.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.

I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope.

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.

The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.

Mrs. Charlotte Phelan's Guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture. A tall plain one, with a trust fund.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

You bat your baby blues at tall, dark, and gruesome, and next thing you know, he's trailing you like a lost puppy.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

Tell him that PDP women in every nook and cranny, wherever we are, young or old, beautiful or ugly, tall or short, small or big, we are chanting to Nigerians: all we are saying, give us Goodluck.

I think of game development as a clown car moving through tall grass.

Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

I'm a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I'm not going to get any taller.

Mr. Tall, Blonde and Lightning

When you have a beanpole body, everything looks cute. Like Alexa Chung. I like her style, but she's really tall and skinny, so everything looks good on her.

I'm almost six feet tall and have a deep voice. People never knew how to cast me.

When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.

I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type.

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.

I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air

You know, I'm not real tall. I'm 6'0, 6'½, but I think people think I'm shorter than I am because I'm not the most muscular cat in the world.

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.