Tall Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• If I am anorexic, Id be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.

  Anushka Sharma

  Feet, Athletic, Inches

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• Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.

  Stephen Fry

  Character, Greatness, Thinking

  "Stephen Fry's Idea of Greatness". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread,
  Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon
  The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead
  Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.

  Allen Tate

  Eye, Moon, Feet

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.91, Macmillan

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• I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

  Laurence Sterne

  Hate, Numbers, Obscurity

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.151

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• The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
  The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

  Sara Coleridge

  Wall, Growing Up, Differences

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• And time brings down what is both strong and tall.
  But plants new set to be eradicate,
  And buds new blown, to have so short a date,
  Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Death, Strong, Fate

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath their makeup they are still recognizably themselves. For boys it is far more disorienting. Puberty comes later, sometimes much later, and its delay is humiliating. While the tall round girls are getting themselves up like grown women, the prepubertal boys, with their featureless, hairless bodies, are just dirty little kids who could pass for the children of the hypermature girls.

  Frank Pittman

  Girl, Children, Dirty

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• It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

  Theodore Parker

  Stars, Men, Heaven

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• Seems like just yesterday, you were a part of me. I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong; your arms around me tight, everything felt so right - unbreakable, like nothing could go wrong. Now I can't breathe. No, I can't sleep; I'm barely hanging on. Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces. Can't deny it, can't pretend, just thought you were the one. Broken up, deep inside, but you won't get to see the tears I cry.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Strong, Lost Love, Sleep

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• Tall poplars--human beings of this earth!

  Paul Celan

  Earth, Humans, Human Beings

  Paul Celan (1980). “Paul Celan: poems”

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• I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough

  Marion Bartoli

  Slim, Enough, Sponsors

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• Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.

  Jacques Roumain

  Song, Nature, Garden

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• The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Feet, Flags, Staff

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• I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm.

  Lee Unkrich

  Sweet, Childhood, Quality

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• There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be;
  There are no hearts like English hearts,
  Such hearts of oak as they be;
  There is no land like England,
  Where'er the light of day be:
  There are no men like Englishmen,
  So tall and bold as they be!
  And these will strike for England,
  And man and maid be free
  To foil and spoil the tyrant
  Beneath the greenwood tree.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Men, Light

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• Yoda is interesting because, in addition to being wise, he is two feet tall, and a Yoda.

  Dan Harmon

  Wise, Two, Feet

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• How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach

  Hanshan

  Rain, Flower, Moon

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