Tall Quotes - page 2

he's probably never met a six-foot tall hot elf-women in a fur bikini either. (Cassandra Clare)
As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets. View quote
Carol Ann Duffy
I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition. View quote
Paul McCartney
Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me. View quote
Edith Sitwell
The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land. View quote
Felicia Hemans
I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth-or in heaven-do I mean by "integral"? The dictionary meaning is fairly simple: "comprehensive, balanced, inclusive, essential for completeness." Short definition, tall order. View quote
Ken Wilber
She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof. View quote
David Foster Wallace
These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light - the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer. View quote
David Foster Wallace
All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! View quote
Kenneth Grahame
I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it. (John Prescott)
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? View quote
Rex Stout
My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads. View quote
Francis Bacon
Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose! View quote
Richard Feynman
Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit." View quote
Plutarch
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite,a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thoughts supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. View quote
William Wordsworth
People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters Since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all.Watched the men who rode you, Switch from sails to steam. And in your belly you hold the treasure That few have ever seen. Most of them dreams, Most of them dreams. View quote
Jimmy Buffett
If he descended from heaven today the great warrior who beat the money-traders you would once more 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 stands tall at the cross for all warriors of the world." View quote
Baldur von Schirach
Here lies a fallen god His fall was not a small one, We did but build his pedestal An narrow and a tall one. View quote
Frank Herbert
He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still. View quote
Ronald Reagan
You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man. View quote
Norton Juster
Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at. View quote
Susanna Clarke