Size Quotes - Page 4

• I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse and he's one of my heroes so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable and they've got brains the size of golf balls.

  Sebastian Coe

  Horse, Silly, Hero

  "Lord Coe". Interview with Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, Overcoming, Operations

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2966, Simon and Schuster

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• Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

  Bryan Singer

  Perspective, Too Much, Tiny

  "Bryan Singer Talks Big Visual Effects, 3D, Bringing a Fairy Tale to Life on a Grand Scale, and More on the Set of JACK THE GIANT SLAYER". Group interview, collider.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Strong, Children, Self

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015..

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• The advantages of a virtual production pipeline are that you can reduce the footprint of your production down to the size of the stage.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Pipeline, Footprint, Advantage

  Source: collider.com

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• Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent.

  Claudine Andre

  Intelligent, Brain, May

  "Bonobos: What we can learn from our primate cousin". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a species that has a brain a third of the size of ours can do something that with all our technological prowess we can't accomplish? Which is to not kill each other.

  Claudine Andre

  Brain, Sides, Helping

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Stars, Winning, Sun

  "What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia, projects.seattletimes.com. October 26, 1967.

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• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Needs, Bigger

  "Rand Paul, Rep. Mike Pence and David Stockman". 'This Week', abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• Advice to expectant mothers: you must remember that when you are pregnant, you are eating for two. But you must remember that the other one of you is about the size of a golf ball, so let's not go overboard with it. I mean, a lot of pregnant women eat as though the other person they're eating for is Orson Welles.

  Dave Barry

  Mother, Mean, Golf

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• The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

  Brian May

  Band, Kind, States

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• I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

  Roscoe Arbuckle

  Doors, Laughing, Weight

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• Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Real, Ifs

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• To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.

  John C. Reilly

  Picks, Budgets

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• I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious? I've cooked bigger turkeys than her "before" picture.

  Erma Bombeck

  Turkeys, Magazines, Before And After

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• We go out of our way to make people so different,... to punish them because of color, because of sex, because of size, and the game starts.

  Bill Cosby

  Sex, Color, Games

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• It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.

  Bill Cosby

  Pride, Males, Jockeys

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• In the 80's we had high, high, waisted pants, that if they came up any higher they'd have to go up another size, if you know what I mean.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Mean, Pants, Higher

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• I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

  Laurence Olivier

  Believe, Dynamics, Firsts

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

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• The most rewarding part about being a dad is just looking at children who didn't exist at some point. The first time you saw them, they were the size of a quarter, in a sonogram, and now they can pour orange juice and yell at each other.

  Paul Reiser

  Children, Dad, Orange Juice

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• Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened at large, they just gave up. They were like, 'I'm not doing any more adjectives; you just keep putting extras on there.' We could do better than that: small, medium, large, whoa, easy, slow down, stop it, interesting, American.

  Demetri Martin

  Interesting, Adjectives, Easy

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• Never guess your wife's size. Just buy anything marked petite and hold on to the receipt.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Wife, Receipts, Petite

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• We can place a product, virtually any size, in almost any location. It really depends on what the program and the video in each individual episode provides in terms of a logical or contextual background.

  David Brenner

  Video, Location, Individual

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• You know, where I come from, an antique, to be called an antique, it has to be at least a hundred years old. That's a law: before you can call something an antique, it has to be a hundred years old. In L.A., something that's been around for a couple of weeks is an antique. It's true! People are like, Look at this old-fashioned iPod. Look at this! It's the size of a man's hand! Ha ha ha ha. Back then-back then, people thought Mel Gibson was just acting crazy. It was a very different time.

  Craig Ferguson

  Couple, Crazy, Men

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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• It's been hard to be a show in L.A. and be trendsetting, because the fashions are in New York... Not to mention that most actresses are all, give or take, the same size, between five-two and five-five, and 95 to 125 pounds.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Fashion, New York, Two

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