Height Quotes

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

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

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

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.

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.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

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.

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.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

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.

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