Height Quotes

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

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

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.