Size Quotes - Page 26

• Didn't anyone tell you that size doesn't matter?" "Yes, but I told him to put his pants back on and go home.

  Christine Warren

  Home, Matter, Pants

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• I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.

  Jennifer Weiner

  People, World, Want

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Kate seemed to have doubled in size. She had drawn back her broad shoulders and set her jaw, and something in the stance called to mind the contained ferocity of a lioness. But it was the fierceness in Kate's bright blue eyes that had the most striking effect. The sort of look that made you thankful she wasn't your enemy. "It's not going to be over," Kate said firmly "Until we say so.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Eye, Blue, Mind

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• I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture. It could rain in a room this big.

  Hugh Laurie

  Rain, Moving, Cycling

  Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Not exactly. I see a girl who wants to present someone special to the world. Someone beautiful. The pinnacle of beauty. But she has lost her hold on reality. Real beauty isn’t thin. It isn’t size two, unless you happen to be four foot ten. What the world sees when they look at you is someone who believes self-worth is all about how she looks, and that very often means that what she’s missing is love. Not someone else’s love. But love and respect for herself.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Beautiful, Girl, Real

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• I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the sky catches up with my mood. The pattern is set. This is, no doubt, the end.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Night, Sky, Waiting

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• It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Tired, Dating, House

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• Wow," she breathed. "I know, right? Hung like a horse." "If you're really nice-and you live through this-I'll promise not to tell V." "About my size." She laughed a little, "No, that you assumed I'd look at you in any fashion other than professionally.

  J.R. Ward

  Fashion, Horse, Nice

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.283, Penguin

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• It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

  Jane Austen

  Couple, Numbers, Rooms

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80

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• I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.

  Christopher Moore

  Girl, Drawing, Air

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• Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Growing Up, Our World, Expansion

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• Where's Magnus?" he said. AS he looked toward the kitchen, Clary saw a bruise on his jaw, below his ear, about the size of a thumbprint. "Alec!" Magnus came skidding into the living room and blew a kiss to his boyfriend across the room. Having discarded his slippers, he was barefoot now. His cat's eyes shone as he looked at Alec.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cat, Eye, Kissing

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1894, Simon and Schuster

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• I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Two, Plowing, Half

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.156, Penguin Group

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• The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have - even if it's no more than a sack lunch.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Responsibility, Lunch, Challenges

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.117, Thomas Nelson

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• The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.

  Kevin Hearne

  People, Soul, World

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.221, Del Rey

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• I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Simple, Garden, Mushrooms

  Letter to Deborah Webster, 25 Oct. 1958

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• Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in different sizes. That some were so big they were like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. You could spend your whole life in them, wandering through dark shelving.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dark, Punishment, Different

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.115, Penguin Books India

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• Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. I’m not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas.

  Kim Harrison

  Ocean, Lakes, Bridges

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• (...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

  James Joyce

  Heart, Littles, Creatures

  James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.637, e-artnow

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• You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.

  David Levithan

  Geometric Shapes, Broken, Definitions

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• His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Brother, Expression

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.34, Penguin

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• The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Dream, Women, Empowering

  Harvard Commencement remarks, news.harvard.edu. May 26, 2011.

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• I frowned, wondering if Trent would mind being the size of a fairy for a day. He could talk to the newest tenants in his garden.

  Kim Harrison

  Garden, Mind, Wonder

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• iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

  David Levithan

  Zero, Certain, Ifs

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.

  Jodi Picoult

  Queens, Men, People

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