Top 100 Taller Quotes
#1. Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.
Jim Butcher
#2. Bailing the center of a spot and not having an embankment is not the only way to flirt. So soon, so left without a spoon, so august and so strange and taller than every other, it is not astonishing that someone is older.
Gertrude Stein
#3. I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.
Wallace Stevens
#4. A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#5. When you're auditioning for commercials, they're looking for a Latin guy in his 20s, and you'll show up, and it's a bunch of people who look just like you, and it's a little weird. More often than not, they're way better-looking. They're taller. They have way more abs than you do.
Frankie J. Alvarez
#6. I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield.
Marie Windsor
#7. I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back there in the first place. I don't fly first class because I have a lot of money. I do it because I need the room.
Charles Barkley
#8. Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.
Christian Louboutin
#9. The promise of easy money is but a wolf's trap laid out for sheep seeking taller grass.
James Jean-Pierre
#10. I'm 5'9'. So, my height's an issue. If I'm feeling sexy, I'll put on some heels-if that makes me a little taller than you, so be it. You have to be secure enough to stand next to a stallion. For a woman to feel her best, her man has to support her.
Keri Hilson
#11. So this is how they lived. For some time Theo, like a tree living in the shadow of taller trees, found a way to live off reflected light.
Dave Eggers
#12. Ove feels an instinctive skepticism towards all people taller than six feet; the blood can't quite make it all the way up to the brain.
Fredrik Backman
#13. So here I am running at guys who aren't taller than 5-foot-8, and I'm the one who tears up his knee.
Chris Chelios
#15. Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
Veronica Roth
#16. Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked. And death was observed with sudden cries, And birth with laughter and pain. And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skies And night came down again.
Conrad Aiken
#17. For once in your life, listen to your younger sister. She's taller, and she knows better than you
Stephanie Perkins
#18. A butte is taller than it is wide, whereas a mesa, like this one, is wider than it is tall.
Craig Johnson
#19. I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem.
Shelley Long
#20. Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am
Rumer Godden
#21. But the player librarians all over the country were raving about most was Marjory Muldauer from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool.
Chris Grabenstein
#22. Do you no' want to fight the lass?" Rob, his cousin had shouted. He was dark-haired, but not quite as dark as Marcus, a little taller, with swimming blue eyes.
...
"Nay," he said, his voice throaty and dark. "The lass is made for loving, no' fighting. I prefer to watch.
Terry Spear
#23. By almost every account he's a fine young man. I'm simply trying to figure out why I should care that he's three centimeters taller than he was in May.
John Burnham Schwartz
#24. Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?
James Patterson
#25. Feris was taller than the average man and his looks were sinister in the form of long dark hair and deep-set eyes. He had an untouchable, magnetic quality that consumed any beholder whose gaze fell upon him as he spoke, and when he fell silent, his penetrating stare easily defied any predators.
Jettie Necole
#26. Cimil's eyes lit. "The Niccolo DiConti? What an honor!" Niccolo stood a little taller then. "Yes, I seek your assistance." Cimil rolled her eyes. "Well, no duh. You didn't abandon your queen's side, risking her wrath, to see me in my fabulous birthday suit.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#27. The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding of the grand millennial mission of this, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#28. In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.
Malcolm Gladwell
#29. Whatever you do, do well. Be good at it. Stand a little taller. Be a little stronger. Be a little better.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#30. We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.
John Of Salisbury
#31. Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver.
Eudora Welty
#32. And when I can't speak it, I write it down. I wish I was different. Wish I was taller, smarter, could talk out loud the way I write things down. I wish I didn't always feel like I was on the outside, looking in like a Peeping Tom.
Jacqueline Woodson
#33. I never grew up. I just got taller.
Bob Jordan
#34. In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.
Susan Estrich
#35. Back in my heyday, when I was out on the streets - I'm engaged now, about to get married - but before that I was quite the sex symbol. My line was, "If I was taller, would I have a chance?".
Kevin Hart
#36. I hate that name," Mr. Grey said, walking toward the dragon's head statue. It was taller than he was, formed eerily from the stalactites and stalagmites of the cavern wall. "I wanted to be Mr. Purple. I like purple.
G. Norman Lippert
#37. Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief."
The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good plan. But remember, the king's instructions were to keep them alive."
-from Eragon, Chapter Title: The Ra'zac's Revenge.
Christopher Paolini
#38. My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
Nicole Kidman
#39. All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.
Mel Brooks
#40. I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.
Thom Yorke
#41. He was exactly my height, which surprised me; my awe of him had made him seem taller.
Rachel Hartman
#42. Julia was a tall, ungainly girl, much taller than Gordon, with a thin face and a neck just a little too long - one of those girls who even at their most youthful remind one irresistibly of a goose.
George Orwell
#43. Perhaps if you were not a foot taller, or quite so broad across the shoulders.'
'It's considerably less than a foot,' said Damen.
'Is it?' said Laurent. 'It feels like more when you argue with me on points of honour.
C.S. Pacat
#44. Arobynn only smiled at her, taller by a head. And when he reached out, she allowed him to brush his knuckles down her cheek. The calluses on is fingers said enough about how often he practiced. I do not expect you to trust me; I do not expect you to love me.
Sarah J. Maas
#46. Enzo's eyes flick back to me. He does not ask if I will be okay. His silent approval makes me stand taller.
Marie Lu
#47. He stood more than a foot taller than I did, his shoulders like a football player's pads, arms corded thick. He was huge, I realized. Kyle had been lean and toned. Colton was ... something else. Obviously powerful. Hard. Primal.
Jasinda Wilder
#48. The door opens and my new neighbor is a vampire. He's nearly a foot taller than me. Unruly ink-black hair, and a face made of knife angles. If I were obnoxious, I might use the term shockingly attractive . Or terrifyingly handsome . Holy mother of balls would also be an option.
Eva Morgan
#49. I may be taller than her on my knees. Does she need a man she can climb?
Carol Maloney Scott
#50. I frowned, gaping at the blond in disbelief. "You're the grim reaper?"
Tod glanced at me for the first time, his frown practically etched into place. "You were
expecting someone older? Taller? Maybe kind of gaunt and skeletal?"Contempt dripped from his words like acid.
Rachel Vincent
#51. LEIA Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper? Does Empire shrink for want of taller troops? The Empire's evil ways, I'll grant, are grand, But must its soldiers want for fear of height?
Ian Doescher
#52. In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.
Edward G. Robinson
#53. He may be taller, but I'm going to show that I'm bigger than him.
Sergio Martinez
#54. But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was.
Darynda Jones
#55. One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.
J.R. Tompkins
#56. Concealers are like undergarments. They make you feel taller and thinner.
Bobbi Brown
#57. Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.
Silvio Berlusconi
#58. I'm still the same guy. My name is still Greyson Chance from Oklahoma. I grow much taller. But nothing really changes.
Greyson Chance
#59. A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller ...
Edward Hoagland
#60. I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
Lisa Kleypas
#61. Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.
Rob Sheffield
#62. As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.
Robert Plant
#63. Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up.
Wes Fesler
#64. The thorns thinned out and the trees grew taller and straighter, their branches not beginning until a few feet over our heads. The white, peeled bark of the birches looked buttery in the long, slanting afternoon light, and their leaves were a delicate gold.
Maggie Stiefvater
#65. I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#66. In a perfect
world I would be taller, you would be alive,
and chickens could cross the road without
being the subject of a joke.
Suzanne Wrightt
#67. Stewart got out of the truck and walked into the wheat field he'd parked beside. The stalks grew higher the deeper into the field he went. He continued walking. The stalks were slightly taller than his waist, but he still didn't know what to say.
Andrew Kaufman
#68. Standing 89 feet high, the Carthay Circle Theatre is actually taller than Sleeping Beauty Castle.
Leslie Le Mon
#69. It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#70. It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
Tara Lipinski
#71. I hear you laughing, and yes you are taller than me, better looking than me, you are fitter than me, your body rippling with muscle, you are also 30 years my junior, but its still gonna hurt like hell when I kick you in the balls.
J.W. Murison
#72. 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.'
Nicholas Hoult
#73. She bear-hugged me in a way that performed some sort of chiropractic miracle, because when she set me down, the tightness in my back was gone and I was an inch taller.
Lisa Wingate
#74. If the hero is not a person, the emblem
Of him, even if Xenophon, seems
To stand taller than a person stands, has
A wider brow, large and less human
Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body
Of a primitive.
Wallace Stevens
#75. I've always wanted to look different. I always think I've got this terrible figure. I'd like to be 3 inches taller.
Nicholas Haslam
#76. At the same time they both caught sight of a third curly flourish on a tree-trunk right in front of them, but it was terribly high up, at least three feet above the ground.
"That's it, I'm sure," said Sniff, stretching himself. "I must be taller than I thought!
Tove Jansson
#77. I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.
Hillary Clinton
#78. Donald Trump was building a pyramid in the Nevada desert to house his eventual remains. When done, it will be ten meters taller than the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Robert J. Sawyer
#79. James was a good twenty years old and several inches taller - it shouldn't have been a fight at all. But
S.M. Reine
#80. The older i got, the taller i got, the more that hole within me stretched until it was gaping throughout my adult life, like a wide eyed jaw-dropping fish on ice ...
Cecelia Ahern
#81. I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2.
Amy Poehler
#82. Jack's height comes from his mom. She has one of those weird "I'm taller than my husband" things going on. I find it weird anyway. Probably because I'm five foot two, and in order to marry someone shorter than me, I'd have to start searching the ranks of little people.
Erynn Mangum
#83. Like a white-haired whirlwind, Janet embraced the younger, taller woman with a deep sigh.
Diana Palmer
#84. I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.
Mark Zupan
#85. Oh gods, are you listening? A storm out at sea is one of your greatest creations. You should hear it praised. The sky is dark, almost as night, and the swells ... they were taller than mountains.
Amy Lane
#86. I'm struggling to keep up with her pace. Though I'm taller, she's built for speed and I'm built for political activism.
Jani Berghuis
#87. I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.
Dave Barry
#88. Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that
Alan Green
#89. The challenge for me is his size because, for the first time in my career, I'll be meeting an opponent who is taller than me and has a longer reach.
Wladimir Klitschko
#90. Dusty, empty shoe boxes, stacked taller and wider than her slim body, wobbled as she pressed her back against them, tucking her bony knees into her chest.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#91. Young guys should focus on maintaining their football position. Coaches always say the lowest guy wins. I'm a taller guy and a bigger guy, but because I'm always in a great football position is why I think I'm able to get away from guys still. It gives me a chance to recover.
Brandon Spikes
#92. I do not consider myself bald, I am just taller than my hair.
Tom Sharp
#93. Dex was taller than me, and as he pressed me against him, he actually hauled me up on my tiptoes. His arm was around my waist, his other hand plunged into my hair, and he was kissing me. I mean, really, really kissing me.
I was kissing him back. And I was good at it.
Rachel Hawkins
#94. No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.
John C. Maxwell
#95. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
E.W. Howe
#96. If I were to go around glamouring people all day, I would at least make myself seem taller, don't you think?
Marissa Meyer
#97. The stiletto is the icon of erotic femininity. You're taller, thinner and curvier, all at the same time. What's not to like?
Valerie Steele
#100. Bailey feels oddly at ease. As though he is closer to the ground, but taller at the same time.
Erin Morgenstern
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