Taller Quotes

#1. If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.

Alexander McQueen

#2. The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of the recent security failures. When asked if he had any other ideas, he said, 'Uh, make the sidewalk lower?'

Jimmy Fallon

#3. Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can if make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

Moss Hart

#4. You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.

Paul Hoffman

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

Kevin Hart

#6. No matter what they thought of him, they'd walk a little taller tonight. It was why they stayed, why they gave their best approximation of loyalty for him

Leigh Bardugo

#7. When you seek Significance, you're always comparing yourself with someone else. And there's always someone bigger, taller, stronger, faster, richer, funnier, younger, more handsome, more beautiful, with a bigger yacht, a nicer car, a nicer home.

Anthony Robbins

#8. The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never do anything silly like kill each other or fall in love or grow up.

Ben Stephenson

#9. As they walked he glanced sideways and at last asked, "You are the one they call Pug?"
If Pug hadn't already been surprised by what they had encountered, he was now openly taken aback. "Yes," he said.
"I'd thought you'd be taller," mused the Pantathian.

Raymond E. Feist

#10. It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Ashton Kutcher

#11. That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.

George R R Martin

#12. Grow taller than your failures; never give up. People who are content with where they are will never be passionate about making greater accomplishments in their lives.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

Kristen Johnston

#14. I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

Gwendoline Christie

#15. Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

Lee Child

#16. How tall are you, Constantine?" I asked, unable to hide my tears.
Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.
"How tall is you?"
"Five-eleven," I cried. "I'm already taller than the boys' basketball coach."
"Well, I'm five-thirteen, so quit feeling sorry for yourself.

Kathryn Stockett

#17. To ensure marital bliss, a man needs to be 1.09 times taller than his partner.

Allan Pease

#18. Which knew and understood and did not shy away from the understanding that there would be pain. Which could accept shattering, could reassemble itself, could stand taller than before.

Nick Harkaway

#19. A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.

Richard Preston

#20. I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.

Lisa Leslie

#21. Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

Willa Cather

#22. Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark.
Bronn: I hear he was taller.
Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.

George R R Martin

#23. I was fat! I was pustule-rich! I looked like a pink human grenade! When did I blossom into the irresistible little orchid that I am now? I don't know. Getting taller helps. It spreads out a bit.

Dylan Moran

#24. By the way our society lives, if you climb the tallest building in the world so you can say you've seen the highest view in the world, by the time you get to the top, there will be a taller building standing right next to you.

Sydney Wilhelmy

#25. Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller.

Amber Benson

#26. There's a Nigerian adage that says 'no matter how long an okra plant grows it can never be taller than its owner'.

S.A. David

#27. Taller, but from

Meredith Duran

#28. Luminet males had definite differences from human ones. They were taller, generally bigger, their bones were denser, but the really big difference was the ability to elongate their tongues. She'd heard about it even before Aeron, but actually feeling it...

Savannah Stuart

#29. When they're taller than you, you still feel just as protective, but the reality is that they will go out into the world on their own and the world will very likely hurt them. To

Debbie Johnson

#30. No nation is ever taller than when on its knees ...

Billy Graham

#31. What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?

Beth Moore

#32. Gazing up at him from under a curl, I asked sincerely, "How can you be so thoughtful and generous?" He seemed to stand taller. "I live by one law: what my wife wants, my wife gets. Even if she doesn't yet know what she wants.

Kresley Cole

#33. For the entrance is low: we must stoop till we are no taller than children to get in.

C.S. Lewis

#34. He stood taller, and straighter, and broader, and infinitely more human than anything else Marcii could possibly imagine.

Ross Turner

#35. I wish I was taller or curvier, but I'm happy with the way I look.

Sarah Hyland

#36. I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5 or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.

Edward G. Robinson

#37. I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won't work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble.

James Cromwell

#38. Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.

Julie Otsuka

#39. No," Threepio responded, "I don't think he likes you at all." A second beep failed to alter the stern tone in the taller robot's voice. "No, I don't like you, either.

George Lucas

#40. I firmly believe it is by sharing such stupid moments as these that we grow into someone other than who we used to be, and I was already feeling an inch taller.

Alan Bradley

#41. She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling then. But love...above all relationships knows no age.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#42. I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.'

Elizabeth Berkley

#43. Don't tell me I'm "too tall" just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot look down upon women who are taller than them is the very reason that many men find tall women so intimidating.

Miya Yamanouchi

#44. I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

Thomas Gold

#45. I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

Joan Smalls

#46. As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.

Carl Hagelin

#47. You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?

Greg Ray

#48. We move like a platoon of silhouettes
balancing sledge hammers on our heads,
unaware our shadows have untied
from us, wandered off
& gotten lost.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#49. If you have 8-foot ceilings, you'll want a low sofa, which gives the impression that the ceiling is taller than it is. In a room with a high ceiling, you want a high-back sofa to be a weighty presence that can hold up to the room.

David Easton

#50. On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don't bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It's not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up.

Liam Payne

#51. All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

Tyler Perry

#52. But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

Neesha Meminger

#53. Leslie entered the lounge like a taller, studlier version of the Kentucky Fried Chicken colonel.

Douglas Coupland

#54. Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Christina Dodd

#55. Dancing on pointe ... Why don't they just get taller girls?

Henny Youngman

#56. Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.

George R R Martin

#57. I don't know how old you are. But I know the lie you hear. You are too young. You are too old. You don't know enough, or you know too much. The truth is that courage doesn't have an expiration date. Courage doesn't have a marker that says, "You must be taller than THIS to ride this ride.

Annie F. Downs

#58. Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.'

Melissa McCarthy

#59. In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

Lev Vygotsky

#60. Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Charles Mingus

#61. Those men who on the off-chance happened to be taller than her often had some genetic species-survival switch tripped in their brain that made them crave women on the opposite end of the height spectrum, to balance out the gene pool.

Sara King

#62. You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.

Leo Rosten

#63. I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs ... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.

Joan Smalls

#64. People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'

Michael Kors

#65. I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller.

Jennifer Aniston

#66. We become taller when we bow.

G.K. Chesterton

#67. At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.

Aaron Neville

#68. I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill.

Henry Cavill

#69. Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

Margaret Thatcher

#70. Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

Sappho

#71. Now, I've had boys of my own, and I know boys aren't that way. They don't learn, or grow, or have manners when you're looking at them. But turn away, and turn back, and there they are, smarter, taller, and charming everyone but their own mothers.

Robin Hobb

#72. Last year I was 60 lbs.
This year I'm 80 lbs and I grew taller.
YES!

Dreamer Girl

#73. Let's get busy. Get up! Stop living an average life. Stop living in a rut. Get ready for a new way to walk and talk. Taller, louder, prouder and thoroughly convinced that you have enough hope in your life to give some away.

J. Loren Norris

#74. I'd designed my avatar's face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn't have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

Ernest Cline

#75. It's really odd to be up close to an icon like Bruce Willis. You're used to seeing him on a screen, 50 feet tall. To think, 'Hmm, I'm taller than you are' is just weird.

Luke Grimes

#76. The moment I put it on, that suit became an old, familiar, and valued friend - and I became taller and wider across the shoulders. It could not have fit better if it had been made on my body. It knew things about me I wouldn't learn for years yet, and approved of them all.

Robert A. Heinlein

#77. 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.

Steve Albini

#78. High heels can literally raise your
status because you're taller when you wear them.

Helen Fisher

#79. I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.

Rachel Nichols

#80. You cannot force spiritual things. A testimony is not thrust upon you; it grows. And a testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large. We become taller in our testimony like we grow in physical stature and hardly know it is happening, because it comes by growth.

Boyd K. Packer

#81. That evening, the old lady sat in the best place for talking: in the kitchen, on the wooden bench beside the oven. This oven was a massive affair built of fired clay, taller than a man and large enough that all four of Pyotr Vladimirovich's children could have fit easily inside.

Katherine Arden

#82. Our shouting is louder than our actions,
Our swords are taller than us,
This is our tragedy.
In short
We wear the cape of civilisation
But our souls live in the stone age

Nizar Qabbani

#83. That's right, Dragonbane. And brothers always stood together, the buffalo came when they were called, the grass grew taller and greener, and it never fucking rained. Get a grip, old man.

Richard K. Morgan

#84. It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.

Miranda Hart

#85. I wish I was a little bit taller,

Skee-Lo

#86. I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.

Shaquille O'Neal

#87. She had large, wide-set green eyes, and long brown hair that curled slightly and turned to gold at the tips. She wore a long, straight blue dress that accentuated the slimness of her frame. She was perhaps an inch taller than Peter, and by the look of her she took baths.

Dave Barry

#88. Dream big, I dreamt of being taller when I was a kid, reinforced with flashbacks everyday I exercised diligently and to my surprise, I am still 5 feet tall.

Pushpa Rana

#89. I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave.

Kirsten Dunst

#90. Ranger was definitely wow. He stood half a head taller than me. He was perfectly toned muscle, and he had classic Latino good looks. He always smelled great. He dressed only in black. His eyes were dark. His hair was dark. His life was dark. Ranger had lots of secrets.

Janet Evanovich

#91. Kids from small families grow about an inch taller than those from large families. This is true regardless of income and social class, because a body can't grow well while fighting off nine siblings' cold viruses.

Arianne Cohen

#92. If I had created myself, I would be taller, blond, and more well endowed, financially. I would have cast out spiders and bad-hair days. Therefore, and hence, I believe strongly in a Creator who not only gave me the gift, but the free will to create my own journey through life.

Audrey Conn

#93. Don't grow much more, or you will be taller than I am, little Longlegs! Annemarie smiled, but Peter's comment was no longer the lighthearted fun of the past. It was only a brief grasp at something that had gone.

Lois Lowry

#94. You've changed," he said. "You're-uh-"
"Yes?"
"Taller."
"I hope so. I was ten the last time you saw me."
"And your hair's really dark now-and short," he added.

Elizabeth Chandler

#95. I catch an old 'Morse' on ITV3. I've never thought I looked particularly like my son. He's taller than me and blond. But when I see Lewis walk into a room with John Thaw, it's like my son has just come onto the screen. That's very strange indeed!

Kevin Whately

#96. And though he stood taller than her, he felt smaller as Aelin stared at him. No, not just Aelin. Queen Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, he realized, was staring at him.

Sarah J. Maas

#97. The taller they are, the longer they fall.

Rick Riordan

#98. Adam stopped by one of the beasts near the front; its shoulder was taller than him, its great skull even higher, and above it all spread a set of antlers that seemed massive in comparison even to the giant skeleton. It was beautiful.

Maggie Stiefvater

#99. I wish my nose was smaller and that I was a little taller. I also had this perennial pimple problem, so I felt people were just being polite when they said I was beautiful.

Madhuri Dixit

#100. With solidarity, you will be more talented and handier, you will be taller and stronger, faster and wiser!

Mehmet Murat Ildan