Tall Quotes - Page 19

• Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention.

  Judith Martin

  Hair, Attention, Red

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• The wind has a language, I would I could learn!
  Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern,
  Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song,
  And all things grow calm, as the sound floats along,
  And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain,
  And slumber sinks down on the wandering main,
  And its crystal arms are folded in rest,
  And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Song, Sweet, Sleep

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• [On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible.

  Nina Berberova

  New York, Cities, Water

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• a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.

  Caroline Pafford Miller

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Caroline Pafford Miller (1993). “Lamb in His Bosom”, Peachtree Pub Limited

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• Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

  William C. Bryant

  Beautiful, Sunset, Orange Trees

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• I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.

  Julia Roberts

  Smart, People, Intimidating

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.

  Will Cuppy

  Zebras, Believe, Fall

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

  Marya Mannes

  Mean, Two, Differences

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

  Rebecca West

  Flames, Age, Grass

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered;
  Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee,
  Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them
  Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.

  William C. Bryant

  Children, Echoes, Tree

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• Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

  Terry McMillan

  Basketball, Football, Thinking

  Terry McMillan (2012). “Disappearing Acts”, p.23, Penguin

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• I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Strong, Athlete, Not Strong

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• When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

  Maya Angelou

  Feet, Black, Trying

  "At 80, Maya Angelou Reflects on a 'Glorious' Life". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. April 6, 2008.

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• [When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

  Carol Mann

  Sports, Team, School

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• Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, Hammocks, Way

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.

  Ariana Grande

  Hurt, Fun, High Heels

  "We Sent Two of Ariana Grande's Biggest Fans to Interview Her - Come See What Happened!". www.glamour.com. September 5, 2013.

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• The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Dream, Past, Cities

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

  Theodore Parker

  Stars, Men, Telescopes

  Theodore Parker “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• The moon is bleached as white as wool,
  And just dropping under;
  Every star is gone but three,
  And they hang far asunder,--
  There's a sea-ghost all in gray,
  A tall shape of wonder!

  Jean Ingelow

  Stars, Twilight, Moon

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.135

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• My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Differences, Directors, Actors

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• I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Age, Body, Shapes

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• How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!

  Mae West

  Boys, Feet, Nine

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• This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Beautiful, Girl, Summer

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.

  Walt Disney

  Strong, Laughter, Heart

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• Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.

  Jimmy Reed

  Work, Men, Boss

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