Height Quotes - Page 36

• That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Thinking, Ivy

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.40

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• I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Ambition, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.157

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• The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the South, keep the window screened with cloth, so that with the sun shining the whole day the light may not vary. The height of the light so arranged as that every object shall cast a shadow on the ground of the same length as itself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Order, Drawing, Light

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.183, GENERAL PRESS

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• For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Size

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• Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.

  Lucy Larcom

  Beautiful, Song, Light

  Lucy Larcom (1881). “Wild Roses of Cape Ann: And Other Poems”

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• If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.

  Laurence Olivier

  Thinking, Mad, Gone

  "Laurence Olivier". Book by Foster Hirsch, 1979.

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• Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Commitment, Steel, Radiance

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• History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

  David McCullough

  Betrayal, Book, Reading

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• She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.

  Alice Meynell

  Sleep, White, Sheep

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Sticks, Tables, Too Much

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• Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Greatness, Men, Mind

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1986). “Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964”, Stichting Drukkerij En Uitgeverij Mvu

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• Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!

  Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

  Happiness, Depth, Tests

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• Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

  Marcus Garvey

  Self, Civilization, Black History

  Robert A. Hill, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association (1987). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. V: September 1922-August 1924”, p.633, Univ of California Press

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• Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Believe, Men

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Failure, Infinite, Downfall

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• Tis not to see the world
  As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
  And heart profoundly stirred;
  And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
  The years that are not more.

  Matthew Arnold

  Eye, Heart, Past

  Matthew Arnold (1965). “Poems”

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• No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of folly and wild madness for any one to set up his thoughts or reasonings in opposition to the plain statements of Holy Scripture; and, on the other hand, it is the beginning and end of all true wisdom to submit in all things to the absolute authority of that Word which is settled forever in Heaven.

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Christian, Men, Hands

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• The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Victory, Age

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.404, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm terrible at heights. I hate it. I'm glad I'm only 5'7".

  Zach Galifianakis

  Hate, Terrible, Glad

  "Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, and Zach Galifianakis Talk THE HANGOVER PART III, Looking Back on the Franchise, Weirdest Moments, Vegas, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 21, 2013.

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• Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,-\-\feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sky, Feet, Long

  Helen Hunt Jackson (2008). “Ramona”, p.323, Broadview Press

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• The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

  Criss Jami

  Clever, Ability, Seeming

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Stars, Civilization, Mad

  "The Coming Problem of Our iPhones Being More Intelligent Than We Are" by Vivek Wadhwa, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2015.

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• Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.

  Thales

  Two, Pyramids, Shadow

  "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics". Book by W. W. Rouse Ball, 1893.

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• You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.

  Joel Osteen

  Pain, Depth, May

  Twitter post from May 18, 2015

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• A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lonely, Sleep, Ice

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.59

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