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  • When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.

    People   Tall  
  • I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

    Sports   Feet   Yesterday  
  • Stain Boy Of all the super heroes, the strangest one by far, doesn't have a special power, or drive a fancy car. next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame. But to me he is quite special, and Stain Boy is his name. He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is to leave a nasty stain. Sometimes I know it bothers him, that he can't run or swim or fly, and because of this one ability, his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.

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

    Feet   Flags   Staff  
  • 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.

    Hair   Attention   Red  
  • 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.

    Feet   Want   Fabulous  
    FaceBook post by Cyndi Lauper from Mar 03, 2014
  • There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.

    Character   Two   Fiction  
    "Talk with Rex Stout "by Lewis Nichols, The New York Times, November 15, 1953..
  • We're gonna do it like George Foreman. We're gonna name all of our kids Mariah no matter if they're boys or girls. Mariah No. 1, Boy Mariah, Man Mariah, Tall Mariah. It's gonna be a house full of people named Mariah.

    Girl   Kids   Boys  
    "Cannon jokes about Carey pregnancy reports". New York radio morning show, www.digitalspy.com. June 3, 2010.
  • Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall.

    Sex   Lying   Bed  
  • We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

    "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Književna reč, Beograd, "Things", (p. 87), 1999.
  • The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

  • What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

    Men   Average   Wonderful  
  • Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

    John Bevere (2010). “The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense”, p.59, Charisma Media
  • I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

    Girl   Eye   Dark  
  • Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.

    Taken   Curves   Long  
    David James Duncan (2002). “My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark”, p.88, Univ of California Press
  • A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

    Beautiful   Men   Gnarly  
    George Catlin (1841). “The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London”, p.46
  • I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me.

    Fall   Beats   Feels  
    Song: 'Till I Collapse, Album: The Eminem Show
  • If you fall stand tall and come back for more.

    Fall   Thug   Tall  
    Song: Keep Ya Head Up, 1993
  • It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, they can slay the dragons of doubt and worry, they can make your problems disappear. But of course they can only do this as long as you're a child. When you've become an adult, become the master of your own universe, they're not as powerful as they once were. Maybe that's why so many of us take our time growing up.

    Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.54, Crown
  • Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.

    Source: archtalks.com
  • You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country.

    Country   Book   Years  
  • You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

    Girl   Want   Tall  
    Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
  • Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in ... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.

    Girl   Zero   Nice  
    "The forgotten supermodel" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2009.
  • And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

    Happiness   Sad   Sky  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.111, Cambridge University Press
  • There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?" I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.

    Italian   Care   Beard  
  • Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

    Mean   Eye   Thinking  
    Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.

    Opportunity   Men   Feet  
    Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com
  • I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.

    Lame   Body   Wrists  
    Source: gubelette.tumblr.com
  • The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life.

    Live Life   Men   Ideas  
    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”
  • Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

    Real   Cities   Way  
    Michael Ondaatje (2007). “Vintage Ondaatje”, p.80, Vintage
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