Tall Quotes

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal. (Uma Thurman)
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth. View quote
Albert Finney
I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy. View quote
Sigourney Weaver
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? View quote
T. S. Eliot
The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours. View quote
Isaac Watts
Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul The mind 's the standard of the man. View quote
Isaac Watts
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. View quote
Pierre Loti
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. (Saskya Pandita)
I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal. View quote
Leslie Nielsen
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. View quote
William Weld
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. View quote
Mike Pence
I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large. View quote
Edwin Moses
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. View quote
Harry Seidler
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character. View quote
Pam Grier
Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind. View quote
Edwin Arlington Robinson
There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with Jak O' the Shadows We will toss the dice however they fall And snuggle the girls be they short or tall Then follow lord Mat whenever he calls To dance with Jak O' the Shadows. View quote
Robert Jordan
Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be. View quote
Raymond Chandler
I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes. (Raymond Chandler)
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. View quote
Mae West
You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens. View quote
Donald Trump
If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the foundation of early races. View quote
Willa Cather