Tall Quotes

When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.

I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.

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.

Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.

You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.

Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda.

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

Yeah my money's so tall that my Barbie's gotta climb it

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

Tall poplars--human beings of this earth!

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.

Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.

Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself... I have very strong security.

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

There's one thing about Kyriagos - he's tall, he's physical and he's slow

Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall.

Africans are not as tall as northern Europeans. But Manute Vol and other sports figures in basketball and football receive a lot of press coverage.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.

I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.

Trying to understand women is a tall order period.

Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?" "A snowman?

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.

I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people.

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.

He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.

Kitten, when did you get so tall? (Ravyn) I grew while you were in the bathroom. (Erika)

I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.

Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.

Short is short and Tall is Tall You are what you are That is All!

I wouldn't mind being taller, because when I'm in the company of people who are absurdly tall, there's something about them that I can't help admiring.

When people are absurdly tall, they command everyone's attention when they walk into a room. Nobody's ever dismissive of somebody for being too tall.

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.

I've always said Crouch is special. He's tall and that makes him special but he is special because he has good feet as well

I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter." "How’d you know all that?" "I just trod on ‘im.

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!