Quotes About Tall

#1. You act like the sorcerers are invading the continent for the sole joy of hunting me down and lobbing me off of tall objects.

V. St. Clair

#2. I have always loved the many moods of the sky at Rocky Flats. Turquoise and teal in summer, fiery red at sunset, iron gray when snow is on the way. The land rolls in waves of tall prairie grass bowed to the wind, or sprawling mantles of white frosted with a thin sheath of ice in winter.

Kristen Iversen

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

Laird Barron

#4. The scenic vistas of North Carolina and Tennessee make you feel like you're looking at a work of art, but crossing through the rural countryside of southwest Virginia and caressing the tall grass with your fingertips, you feel like you're part of the painting.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

#5. I want a place you hardly dare to even whisper. I want the bravery to not only read, but to do. I want a man, not a library boy. A man who is tall and witty and knows more about the world than you would ever dare dream.

Elise Kova

#6. Tragedy is a storm we all must weather, my friend. To let it break you is the worst tragedy of all. Instead we stand tall in defiance and wear a smile when all reason for smiling has left us.

Michael James Ploof

#7. God Lord, give me strength. Please keep the local firefighters away from me. Keep me out of the path of hardened abs and tall men in uniform, for they are bastards, one and all. Amen

Rosanna Leo

#8. The squashy earth-colored sofas, the tall cups of American froth, the wholesome young people working with quiet efficiency

Robert Galbraith

#9. I want trees that are three hundred feet tall, black bear that poke around my stuff, deer that eat out of my hand, and a view that almost brings me to my knees every morning. I want to work just hard enough to afford my life.

Robyn Carr

#10. If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. If a 6 foot tall talking Badger comes to your door with a great deal on health insurance, be certain to ask if it includes in-patient psychiatric care.

David C. Holley

#12. I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

Linda Ellerbee

#13. Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

Walt Whitman

#14. I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.

Karlie Kloss

#15. 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.

Cathy Guisewite

#16. I need to approach my Father in heaven as if I were three feet tall and short on life experience.

Bonnie Lyn Smith

#17. Marshall alone his room with a comically tall stack of books, methodically absorbing their contents as though they were drugs ...

Douglas Coupland

#18. Really, she didn't know if she'd truly like to find out more about the pygmy tyrant. She just liked the name, because, for a five-foot-tall girl, pygmy tyrant sounded like a career.

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. 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.

Ken Venturi

#20. By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

Saskya Pandita

#21. Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.

Peter Falk

#22. I must go down to the sea ... to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by ...

John Masefield

#23. I read for someone a week ago," she says. "He was young, younger than I was when I met you. Tall in the way of someone who is not yet used to being tall.

Erin Morgenstern

#24. The owner of the Stone's Throw was built like a brick wall - if a brick wall decided to grow a beard - tall

V.E Schwab

#25. I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.

Flann O'Brien

#26. It's hard for me to be serious. I can't really rub oil on me and go all the way with it [laughs]. I hear some screams and I laugh to myself. I always get a kick out of it. I'm three feet tall, basically.

Janelle Monae

#27. She was tall, elegantly dressed and coifed, and looked ten years younger than her fifty-five years.

Stuart Woods

#28. When you're feeling down ...
Smile
Stand tall, shoulder back
Compliment someone
Help someone in a big or small way
Listen to music
Clean your space
Plan your day
Do what your brain tells you can't or shouldn't
Pray (or meditate) with a focus on gratitude
Breathe

Charles F. Glassman

#29. Joke:
What did the young ladybug learn from her dance teacher in Ladybug Finishing School?
Curtsy no flirtsy, Stand Tall not small, A lady must be a lady at the Ladybug Ball

Heather Wolf

#30. In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. You're a little tall to play Ariel." said Moth.
"And you have way too many muscles," said Mustardseed.
"But you might be able to pull it off," Cobweb said, "if you can look really constipated.

Lisa Mantchev

#32. If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come
'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

Calvin Trillin

#33. You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?

Greg Giraldo

#34. Women to whom one has just been introduced think that it breaks the ice if they scream, 'Goodness, you're tall!' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming 'Goodness, what thick ankles!' or 'Goodness, what a bust!

Tyrone Guthrie

#35. Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.

Carol Loomis

#36. A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

George Catlin

#37. The sentries might not be the most alert, but they might have marked a skulking, five-shoe tall grasshopper.

Michael Flynn

#38. Hooking up with a tall, dark stranger in a bar wasn't anywhere on her to do-do list, but as she eyed those broad shoulders, the thick neck, strong-looking hands, and gorgeous mouth ...
What the hell, maybe he should be on the top of her "to-do" list.

Ophelia London

#39. The man who entered was a stranger. He was young, tall, and something about him suggested violence, though she could not say what it was, because the first trait one grasped about him was a quality of self-control that seemed almost arrogant.

Ayn Rand

#40. Chaplain Vega's a tall Mexican guy with a mustache that looks like it's about to jump off his face and fuck the first rodent it finds. Kind of mustache only a chaps could get away with in the military.

Phil Klay

#41. The tall blue spruce trees surrounding the church stood like ancient prophets in white gowns and a peregrine falcon that had taken up residence in the belfry perched on a ledge keeping an eye out for wandering mice.

Kathleen Valentine

#42. She certainly hadn't planned to sleep with anyone. But Mr. Tall, Dark, and Sexy had approached and it had been over for her.

Katie Reus

#43. I lie on top of him, skin to skin. He's tall, I'm not, but when we lie like this, we fit together. All the curves of my body relax into the strength of his.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#44. I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale.

Damon Lindelof

#45. Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together

Adele

#46. 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.

Robert Graves

#47. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don't have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills.

Misty May-Treanor

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

Henny Youngman

#49. Most people just want to see you fall, that's more reason to stand tall.

Emma Michelle

#50. Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.

Victoria Kahler

#51. There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.

Douglas Brinkley

#52. Don't ever sell yourself short. Stand tall. Never be ashamed of who you are. You are beautiful, you are loved. You are needed. You are worth it. Promise me you won't forget that. Promise me you won't let your scars define who you are. Let your trials shape you. Let your victories humble you.

Jennifer Nettles

#53. Those who grow Tall by giving it their All, without the worry of Fall, are powered by a Passion,that is born from Inspiration.-RVM

R.v.m.

#54. Tall women are attracted to my littleness. I have a lot of tall female friends. They like how I am always looking up to them and I like having the option to jump into their pocket if I want to hide.

Amy Poehler

#55. Mumbai is different! It's busy, it's dusty, it's posh, it's different from everything I've ever known. You can barely see the sky, hidden behind the tall buildings, the moon seems so detached, the trees look indifferent and distant.

Debalina Haldar

#56. Frenchman was tall and thin, with a lugubrious and tired face, but

Bernard Cornwell

#57. Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Carine Roitfeld

#58. I felt one hundred feet tall, made of solid gold, and on fire.

Cory Doctorow

#59. For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - -despite being overweight by conventional -standards.

Boy George

#60. 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.

Rose McGowan

#61. Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

Danny Kaye

#62. I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you

Adele

#63. 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.

Patrick Ewing

#64. Tommy was tall and wide-hipped, but Mills couldn't tell what kind of body lay underneath the black T-shirt and jeans, what kind of person, what kind of smell or ability to reach over in the dark. There were certain things a person could only learn by touching someone else.

Christopher Bollen

#65. Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

Wilfred Owen

#66. Stand tall like a tower.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

John O. Brennan

#68. In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.

Douglas Brinkley

#69. If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here.

Richard Dawkins

#70. His stride was long, tall, and proud. He wore a mask of proprietary disinterest, as though everything before his eyes belonged to him and his whimsy. He looked arrogant.
He fit right in.

S.G. Night

#71. Dahlia felt the cabin was growing smaller with each introduction. Each man stood tall with wide shoulders and bulky muscles. She felt ridiculous standing near them.

Christine Feehan

#72. To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

Argentina Palacios

#73. I now have an erection that is probably tall enough to ride some of the scarier rides at Great America without a parent.

Audrey Niffenegger

#74. Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

Chad Harbach

#75. the son of Olaf. The latter was a tall,

Peter Darman

#76. My plan is, I'm in the process of creating a production company called Tall Girls productions. I want to be doing both film and television. I'll never leave television. I just love working in it too much.

Melissa Rosenberg

#77. Stand strong. Stand firm.
Stand tall like tower.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#78. It was wild and dark and grand and tall and fierce and haunting all at once. And it thrilled me to the core. It thrilled me and it frightened me, for it whipped at my carefully closeted heart, much as the wind had whipped at my hair and skirts and sent my bonnet tumbling.

Julianne Donaldson

#79. Diagnostic ECG: Progressive changes include tall, thin T waves; prolonged PR interval; ST depression; widened QRS; and loss of P wave. Eventually, QRS widens further (sine wave) and cardiac arrest occurs (see

Ursula Eaterday Heitz

#80. Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty.

John Burnside

#81. 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?

Stephen King

#82. Between the borders of Faerie and the physical world stands an ancient forest where the trees are exceedingly tall; and although no longer visible to men, their roots go deep into its earth.

Gabriel Brunsdon

#83. Race for the pschological advantage. Sit up tall, pull in high, stay within the margins of power, and they will inevitably look over at some point to see what kind of God is blasting your boat forward.

Christopher Allsopp

#84. There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it's best just to stand tall.

Jennie Fields

#85. I'd only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-style. Rina found this incredibly sexy. It made me nervous. - Caitlin about Jeff

Sarah Dessen

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

Simon R. Green

#87. The guy was almost as tall as Doc, which put him in the six-foot-five range. And he was broad, with dark hair, but man, the chip on his shoulder was visible from the fucking moon. Prophet

S.E. Jakes

#88. By the by, he is a virgin, about eight feet tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge. Do not be alarmed.

John Le Carre

#89. Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.

Steve Maraboli

#90. I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#91. There was a tall, sensible man in the room called Thorpe, a gentleman with very little magical learning, but a degree of common sense rare in a magician. He

Susanna Clarke

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

Matt Emmons

#93. And rose from her stool to make a big, bullying point of walking to the scales and weighing them herself. Anna felt scolded and two feet tall. She carried the agitation all the way home and didn't speak another word of German for the rest of the day.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#94. These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light - the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheet.

David Foster Wallace

#95. She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

David Foster Wallace

#96. Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the galaxy, you might as well be eight feet tall and covered with hair.

Charles Yu

#97. In my school days, everyone thought I'm too tall for a Chinese girl.

Liu Wen

#98. Walk tall but don't bang your head on low hanging branches.

Peter James West

#99. I hate talking about my height, because I don't feel like a tall person ... When I see a tall woman, I'm always slightly like, 'Whoa.' It looks weird, but that could be because of my complex about it, my worry over whether it's womanly to be that tall.

Miranda Hart

#100. If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

Toni Morrison