Tall Quotes - Page 28

• Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

  P. M. Forni

  Self Esteem, Eye, Ladders

  P. M. Forni (2010). “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Women to whom one has just been introduced think that it breaks the ice if they scream, 'Goodness, you're tall!' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming 'Goodness, what thick ankles!' or 'Goodness, what a bust!

  Tyrone Guthrie

  Thinking, Ice, Ankles

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• Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown, like the time she forced me to have sex with her in the little car, or the time she kept spraying me with the seltzer bottle until I obeyed her every command. Ethan and I would laugh and laugh at these tall tales, but I could tell deep down, he was wondering whether the leather clown was really real or not. And I would let him wonder.

  John S. Hall

  Sex, Real, Laughing

  "Song: 'Leather Clown' ('They')". 1988.

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• If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would shout your "crucifige!" and nail him to the cross which he himself bore. But he mildly smiles upon your hate: "The truth will prevail, even if the bearer falls; the faith will live, for I give my life ... and stand tall at the cross for all warriors of the world.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Hate, Fall, Warrior

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• My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

  Nancy Lublin

  Sexy, Art, Powerful

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• The tall team takes the low road into the lead

  Martin Tyler

  Football, Team, Lows

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• Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14.5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1.83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3.9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Book, Men, Years

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Voice, Want

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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