Quotes about Tall

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

T.s. Eliot

They're tall and they swarm you, so it's hard to see around them -- and it's hard without one of our best players to go against them. They're impressive.

Christine Bochnak

She's a big girl. She's tall and very, very strong. She was very physical.

Ashley Boehnel

We have a high concentration of tall trees in this park. In the last two days, we've been assessing trees that are twisted, leaning and didn't stand straight. We've taken a lot of trees down.

Warren Holliday

The thing that separates him from a lot of linemen is his mobility. He's got real good feet for a tall guy.

Chuck Jordan

When we got married in the early '50s, Judy was still very beautiful, ... She was only 5 foot tall — just a shrimp of a girl, really — but she had a very sensuous body and, up close, her skin was like porcelain, pure white. I was crazy about her. She had incredibly kissable lips.

Sid Luft

Now almost 20 years later, we have trees that are 20 feet tall.

Steve Wirt

There are often no other structures - like tall buildings - to put cell sites on.

Tim Duffy

He can dominate offensively and he can also stop anyone in this conference between 6-feet tall and 6-10. He?s a load for us and every other team in this league.

Dan Miles

I know I'm not that tall. But to me, I feel like I'm bigger than anybody out there.

Atiyyah Henderson

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

Jack Dempsey

This is a very tall, big order for us. It's a stretch for us.

Russell Rasco

We need to use the cover that's already here to protect the seedlings. Eventually the ones that survive will grow tall and take over this area. But right now they need some help.

Joe Engbeck

I just don't know who can compete with Pfizer -- it's a pretty tall order.

Tom Burnett

It is not practical to build super-tall office buildings in the post-9/11 world.

Larry Silverstein

He's very talented with high velocity, just very overpowering. He's always been in the plans. The talent was projected. We knew he would be tall, and he was always real fluid in his action. He's also a hard worker.

Rick Lepire

It's a very narrow, tall bridge and it wouldn't be safe to place those banners. And if the banners aren't secured, well, they could drift into traffic and cause an accident.

Colin Jones

Firstly, there is no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either.

Neil Gaiman

And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.

Hans Christian Andersen

He's very tall but has excellent technique.

Roland Nilsson

They're tall ... real tall. And real pretty.

Adam Baker

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

Lisa Leslie

I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds.

Richard Kiel

We've got the same kind of style, ... We're both tall with long arms and both like to go inside, so if it comes down to it this could be a bloody fight and we'll both be slugging it out. If it's not a battle, we'll see what each other brings to the table.

Julio Gonzalez

He's an overachiever. If you look at him you'd never think that he is a talented wrestler. He's tall and lanky and not very muscular, but he's a gifted athlete. He's also a good student and a leader on campus. His main attribute is his work ethic. He just works harder than most kids. Hopefully, he'll be a state champ for us.

Bryan Smith

I've never had any desire to be 6 feet tall. I'd go around banging my head.

Felix Silla

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Uma Thurman

The key to not allowing the rejection to sideline you is to understand that it is not personal. They are not rejecting Sabrina, the person. They are rejecting the blonde 6-foot-tall girl who isn't quite what they're looking for this day, at this casting, for this client, in this market.

Laurie Sikora

I can't believe it's going to be 8 feet tall, ... I just hope it's vertical and not horizontal.

Mary Tyler Moore

A tall officer was able to grab his ankles. He was about one or two steps from getting away.

Alan Wright

It was a little scary. It sounded like a freight train, and then I saw two tall electric poles snapped.

Mike Hoffman

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Dave Eggers

To me, it's gotten worse. I had one little dog, six inches tall, that bit me.

Terry Clark

People think because he's tall that he can't shoot the ball, but he can get on.

Jeremy Kendle

Some returns are 6 feet tall, just boxes and boxes of documents.

Scott Shafer

We put forth a good effort, but the shots didn't fall and we need to shoot well against a tall team.

Marlen Ronten

Charlie, what can you say, big heart, big, tall lad. He bounced it into the deck on a very flat surface and it got us home.

Vaughn Johnson

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

Uma Thurman

Not huffy or stuffy, nor tiny or tall, / But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.

A. P. Herbert

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.

Sir Walter Scott

They are attracted to structures that stand out on the landscape. Ninety-nine percent of the time those are tall cliffs.

Glenn Stewart

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

Cyndi Lauper

She'll laser one into the dugout. In Hawaii, she did it five times in one at-bat. The fence is 3 feet tall, and we're sitting under it to protect ourselves. She has so much power, you don't have time to react.

Kristina Thorson

He was so tall and dignified. He made me feel young again and me feel like I was the most beautiful woman in the world.

Cheryl Phillips

We expected the tall guys, we've heard all about them. But we didn't expect them to start lighting it up from the outside.

Alex Shackleton

I'm really proud of the way my people played. They left all they had out on the floor. The difference was obviously the huge advantage on the boards. Bolingbrook is tall, physical and talented.

Krista Peterson

Earth's tall sons, the cedar, ash, and pine, their parent's undecaying strength declare.

Richard Blackmore

The bed is just gorgeous. It's bright and colorful. It looks like a whole bunch of mattresses piled up. But it's an optical illusion. It's really just fabric, stuffing, nails and a staple gun. It's so tall, you need a ladder to get in.

Linda Walker

Wal-Mart has made no bones about being the place small-town America shops. They're looking to totally change that, and that's a tall order.

Patricia Edwards

He doesn't miss, he's tall, he throws the ball on a line, and he's the total package, as they say.

Steve Sell

He's tall and has a good vertical jump. But speed is the difference. Most drills are time-based drills, so speed makes the difference.

Conley Duncan

Ten or 15 years ago, they were basically standing leading cheers on the sidelines. They weren't throwing each other up in the air, and they weren't forming tall pyramids. The injuries that can result are severe.

Brenda Shields

[Engelmann] is a good player. We talked a little about him maybe guarding me because he is tall and fast.

Mike Capocci

His costumes in 'Flora' were wonderful. They were really of the style of the 1930's, but his clothes to wear in real life were elegant. They made everybody look tall.

Liza Minnelli

How much are they able to capture your imagination and your heart? Being tall doesn't necessarily do it.

Cesar Pelli

The Five Hundred offers a tall seating position, facilitating easy entry and exit for those whose physical challenges make stooping and bending painful.

Warren Clarke

A lot of building super tall has to do with the local governments wanting to put their flag in the ground and say, 'We have arrived as an economy.' China, Malaysia and Taiwan are really trying to establish themselves on the skyscraper playing field. They want to make a statement that they have arrived.

Ron Klemencic

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

Raymond Chandler

Hugh was a fine boy. He was a good all- American boy. He was tall, slender and played basketball. He was the center. We were real close.

Fred Byrd

She was only 5 feet tall, but he must have been scared, because the teen threw his license at her and took off again.

William Long

They love those tall buildings, those apartment complexes where they can make their colonies between the eaves.

Cheryl Brom

Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go [Linda Evangelista ordering her favorite Starbuck's coffee].

Linda Evangelista

What can you do against those guys. You can't draw contact because they're so tall and can still block your shots.

Clayton Turk

He's a big, tall, physical guy and has a lot of ball awareness, ... He is a guy who can stretch the field. I think most people who play against him kind of underestimate his speed up and down the field. Because he's a tall guy, he has a longer stride.

Travis Fisher

(Coffman's) pretty good. They're definitely not as tall as Brookhaven, but they've got a couple pretty good guys inside and a couple good shooters.

Orlando Mccoy

They have a good team, and their post players just wore us down. They're tall, and a good group of athletes. They held their position nicely, and just lobbed over our interior defenders.

Todd Pawielski

They hit some early jumpers. We were expecting with their tall guys, for them to try to pound it. But they went outside and caught us inside.

Wilbert Hamilton

I'm six feet tall and the water was up to my shoulders. I had to take my little sister and put her on my back. My niece, she was big enough to walk, but it was up to her head. I mean, dead bodies floating around and everything.

Robert Cummings

I am pleased that we put forth that effort for catastrophic events, ... But you look back at other events that have taken place that have called for some kind of fundraising or support from students and staff. Our staff and students have always stood tall.

James White

We talked a lot about mechanics. Being tall, when something mechanical can go wrong, it goes wrong in a hurry. We talked about what he watches out for and the things he does in his bullpen sessions. It was good stuff.

Matt Thornton

I think when you have a guy back there that is 6-10, it's easier, because you have that knowledge that you can just filter stuff in to him. You don't have to have guards rotate over, and try to take charges, and Sean's tall enough that he doesn't have to foul you. You also don't have to get out and try to press teams and turn them over.

Larry Farmer

[Some of them said the decision to keep it open was motivated by baseball's desire for aerial TV pictures.] Unfortunately for this argument, ... Fox does not have a blimp, although it does have several tall cameramen.

Thomas Boswell

It ended up raining, so we had to go indoors. The courts were very quick. They had a lot of big hitters, mostly big tall kids. I think that was definitely an advantage for them to be able to play on that type of surface. They're definitely an indoor team. I think if we had played them outdoors, it might have been a different story.

Mickey Cook

Their initial pump was designed for a six-foot-tall, healthy male. So the pump was sized for the flow this 180-pound guy who plays tennis would have. Most of the patients that need this pump aren't that person.

Matteo Pasquali

Yeah, except you?re driving through tall trees on either side. It?s like a tunnel. And then behind those trees, there are condos on your right and left, and that always gets in my head. It?s a big fairway, but I can never hit it.

Jeff Blumling

He's very good with his back to the goal. He's tall and can head and flick ball, and is a great finisher.

George Gelnovatch

Tall, bald, and pouch-eyed, with a velvet voice, a droll wit and the face of a cunning bloodhound a performer who made audiences twitter and roar with subtle ease.

Robert D. Mcfadden

I drove by and I saw these two 8-foot tall stumps ... and thought, that's what I'm looking for.

Frank Hyman

The students actually had the opportunity to play a variety of rhythm instruments together. There were instruments of all sizes; some that were played while straddling, some that are carried, and some that were three-feet tall.

Jan Wilson

[The sets are big: The apartment houses lining the Manhattan street set stand between 46 and 48 feet tall. They're so tall that the lights couldn't be hung with conventional Genie lifts that reach 40 feet. Instead, a track had to be hung from the ceiling grid, 58 feet up.] We fly a man up to the track, ... and there's a little seat and he can push himself along the track and focus the lights.

James Noone

The crowd went absolutely wild. They cheered even louder when she was handed her 7-foot tall trophy on the podium afterward.

Robyn Grigoletti

That's a long 18 seconds (the length of the final possession), but it was certainly poise by them. I thought we got a hand up, and I thought only Matt Cahill can make that shot in this league. You had to be tall and athletic and hop right into it as you got it.

Jay Lawson

Most wrestlers are kind of short and he's tall and rangy, so immediately he poses problems for wrestlers because it's an unconventional body type.

Tom Minkel

He was tall and skinny and had no real muscle strength. Now, he is wiry strong. He has worked extremely hard and put himself in a position to get to the national tournament and hopefully to do good things.

Brad Penrith

I don't remember much about playing basketball at East. But I remember that basketball is where I learned to stand tall.

Betty Richardson

They played very physical inside. They were not as tall as our girls but they were a little bit bigger, and they did a good job on the boards, too.

Gene Rasmussen

First he is short and then he is tall. He is out of the race to fight C, and then he is in the race to fight C. He's got this Polish guy and a grill salesman in an expensive RV with him running around the state. None of those things by themselves are noteworthy, but you add them all together and you get this real strange picture.

John Straayer

He was tall and lanky, and he could reach all over the place, ... I enjoyed every minute with him.

Roger Morris

What you see on film is sort of a tall, rangy, instinctive linebacker. He makes plays, and that's what I really like. He's a guy who's always around the ball, not just every now and then.

Tom Lemming

I think what we saw today was the effect of our counterinsurgency and security operations in Tall Afar in the previous weeks. The enemy then decided to bail out. They knew they were being destroyed.

Hr Mcmaster

If the walls are too tall, when you sit down, you feel like you're in a playpen. When you're sitting on the porch, you want to be able to see the outside.

Dave Tibbetts

I don't think a city should depend on tall grass. In general, if there is a barrier, that helps. If there is a 25-foot surge coming, does that make it two feet less in New Orleans? It has yet to be proven.

Hassan Mashriqui

Our defense is pretty aggressive. When you put some pretty tall, stretchy kids up there on that perimeter, it makes it tough on the offense to be able to pass against it. If we stay aggressive and really get after it, we are tough on the perimeter.

Scott Bokelman

She looks a lot like Bernstein and Caress; they all look alike, tall and leggy.

Tom Vanmeter

In a headline grabbing market like Las Vegas, being under construction means a lot. You hear so much about the few projects that are announced but don't move forward and so little about those that are thriving and actually being built. I'm proud to announce that Allure is standing and growing tall.

Bea Goodwin

Brett Jones can come into our side and play back or play forward as that medium tall. Damien Adkins has been playing very well for Perth. He is a quality player who can kick us a goal, too.

Peter Sumich

This week, the pine trees are very tall and when it's windy, we can see it when we hit the ball. Conditions are good. But it's more softer and better than last week. Last week was very hard greens.

K.j. Choi

Kind of like a gut punch, it took the air out of us. He's so tall, it's hard to match up.

Chris Barclay

We tried to send a message because we heard they had a (tall) player and we were shorter than her. We had to work real hard on defense.

Fannie Goodwin

I sat down by her and realized how tall she was. She was already about 5-foot-10, and I asked her if she'd ever thought about playing volleyball.

Pam Wilkins