Tall Quotes - Page 33

• Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

  Edith Sitwell

  Sleep, Reality, Sea

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Clouds, Feet, Giants

  "Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism". Book by Carver Mead, 2002.

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• What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

  George Crabbe

  Church, Towers, Bells

  'The Borough' (1810) Letter 2 'The Church' l. 11

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• I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Love, God, Faith

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• Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.

  Phil Ochs

  Strong, Land, Our Love

  Song: The Power and The Glory, Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing

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• Our task is to stand tall in God's love, secure in our place, sparkling in kindness, surrounded by his goodness, freely giving to all who come our way. You, me, and the Christmas tree. Picked, purchased, and pruned.

  Max Lucado

  Kindness, Giving, Tree

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled our roots, ties, and traditions. We had grown so tall we thought we could afford to cut the roots that held us down, only to discover that the tallest trees need the most elaborate roots of all.

  Paul L Wachtel

  Pride, Cutting, Roots

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• I think [Otto Porter Junior] just took a couple tough shots so far - a couple tough jump shots - but I think he has a great mid-range game, he's very tall and can create his shot. So, I think with more spacing he'll get easier shots, I think he'll be fine.

  John Wall

  Couple, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.truthaboutit.net

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• When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall black African - or African-American built such and such. And you start seeing these character descriptions and seeing that, oh, you're only going in for the ones that are described as your look.

  Mahershala Ali

  Character, African American, Black

  Source: www.npr.org

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• First, there are many who can fight, but they're small in stature; Zhang Lanxin is 177 cm [5'9"+] tall, with very long hands and legs, and very quick. In the scenes, I tried to show all of her special strengths and qualities. Plus, Zhang Lanxin has extraordinary staying power: it was only yesterday at the airport that I saw her cell phone photos from the hospital where she was having blood clots in her knee being cleared up, and I hadn't known till then that she had this problem.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, Airports, Phones

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• I have had to fight every single style coming up on my way to get here I wasn't fed anyone in any point of my career. I fought every style you could think of - righty, lefty, tall, short, power-puncher, fast guys, counter guys, so for me it is the norm - training for guys with different styles.

  Chris Algieri

  Fighting, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I'm tall for the weight class. I am built to go in and stand in front of the man and trade bombs - why would I do that? I've got length, I've got reach, I've got speed; I've got footwork and defense, but that's not what's going to be the difference in this fight. It's not a tall guy versus a short guy - It's Chris Algieri versus Manny Pacquiao. It's what I bring to the table versus what he brings to the table. I think a lot of it has to do with my mental preparation and mind going into this fight as well as what we know from Manny.

  Chris Algieri

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• In America, we will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall. One hundred percent. They don't know it yet, but they're going to pay for it. And they're great people and great leaders but they're going to pay for the wall. On day one, we will begin working on intangible, physical, tall, power, beautiful southern border wall.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Wall, America

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The Devil is a liar. He cannot win. And that's all we're seeing is a bunch of devils [Donald Trump]. So we have to pray and just look out for one another. Keep your chest out, stick your head up and walk tall.

  Mavis Staples

  Liars, Winning, Devil

  "Mavis Staples Interview: Staple Singers, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, Jr., and that one time in Memphis". Interview with Ed Masley, www.azcentral.com. March 1, 2017.

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• My dad once told me that he would rather I had an old boyfriend than a tall boyfriend. I don't know why, I think he's just feels stressed by... He' not that short I just think the idea of a really tall guy is super anxiety producing to him. And now I'm with neither old guy nor a very tall guy. So everything has worked out perfectly.

  Lena Dunham

  Dad, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• [Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Beautiful, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I'm a really skinny guy, I'm real tall, and I have a very high metabolism, so if I drink anything with caffeine in it, it makes me have an anxiety attack. So I can't do coffee, or cola, or coffee ice cream, or any of those things. They make me feel like I'm going berserk.

  Mark Hosler

  Real, Coffee, Ice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman standing, very well-dressed and groomed, and he asked, "What is your name? I don't know you. What is your major?" I said history. And he looked at my drawing and looked at me and said, "You don't belong over there; you belong here." He was James A. Porter.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Names, Drawing

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I believe the Bible tells a story we recognize as true. I don't just mean it tells an accurate story - though it's telling that the Bible stands tall even after more than 2,000 years of secular criticism.

  Max Lucado

  Believe, Mean, Years

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I have a list of universal beliefs, and they are amazing beliefs, like, "No one cares" or "You don't care about me"; "I should be successful" or "I'm not successful"; "I don't have enough money"; "I'm too tall or thin or fat"; "I shouldn't have done it" - oh, my goodness, they go on and on and on.

  Byron Katie

  Successful, Care, Lists

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

  Calvin Harris

  Height, Reaching, Shots

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

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• I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

  Shirley Henderson

  Character, Blonde, Sound

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

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• Race for the pschological advantage. Sit up tall, pull in high, stay within the margins of power, and they will inevitably look over at some point to see what kind of God is blasting your boat forward.

  Christopher Allsopp

  Race, Looks, Rowing

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• I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

  Steve Purdy

  Unique, Play, Defense

  "Profile of a Golden Bear: Steve Purdy". BerkeleySportsBlog.com Interview, www.californiagoldenblogs.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I want to show you that you can leap tall buildings, walk through walls, and change reality.

  Elan Lee

  Wall, Reality, Want

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