I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
As a big man you may struggle to get much height when jumping for a ball – but by training with your defender team-mates you can develop a technique for making strong challenges in the air, making defenders uncomfortable and work on taking the ball down.
I’ll put a 25-kilogram bag of sugar over each shoulder and run up the stairs with them when we’re loading ingredients that have been delivered, and I’ll hold 25-kilogram blocks of butter at shoulder height to build arm strength as well.
While you’re in space, you grow in height! Without the constant force of gravity on your spine, it stretches out, and you’re actually taller when you land. It doesn’t last long though.
My earliest memories are when my father was the attorney general at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. We would go to visit him at the Justice Department and take the tunnel over to the FBI building and watch the sharpshooters at practice.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
‘A Spy in the House’, the first of Y. S. Lee’s ‘The Agency’ novels, is pure confection, an historical romp through England at the height of The Great Stink that imagines a secret spy ring for women tucked away where few notice but powerful factions clamor for their services.
I know I’ve accomplished a great deal for a man of my height. It’s been a blessing, and I thank God for the talent. I’ve always given 110%.
It is difficult to age because society won’t let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.
Tom and I didn’t have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it.
I’ve never been blessed with height, strength and power so I’ve had to learn how to play differently from a young age, my game was all based on technique and when I look at players like Xavi and Iniesta they were always players I modelled myself on.
Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it – Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn’t be a romance novelist.
I don’t know where I got the height from; dad was only five-foot-seven and my brother’s five-foot eight.
A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women.
Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.
I used to be super self-conscious about my height. I mean, going everywhere and someone just looking at you – you’re never not in the spotlight.
I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
Even at its height, ‘The Daily Show’ would do one great show a week, one pretty good show a week, and then two ‘meh’ ones. It was filler.
Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
I’m always looking at the ball and making sure it goes in. I’m not looking at where I’m at or what level I’m at in height.
Some people don’t have hands, some don’t have eyes – these people’s struggle in life is real. We have been blessed with everything – a pair of eyes, ears, hands. What do we have to worry about? About having one more foot added to our height? Just because I am not six feet, won’t I be respected?
Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.
Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same height.
The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
I spent my entire life being afraid. I was afraid of everything – height, flights – I had no idea why.
Even at our height, we were never very polished.
I didn’t have a lot of good film coming out of college. Also, my height didn’t help me at all. I ran a decent 40, but no one would call it blazing speed.
The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.
There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might’ve wanted to select to do. But that’s the style of my voice. There’s nothing I can do about the height of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.
When I was coming up through the programs with the Amateur Basketball Association, it was height: they looked for the tall players, and they looked to develop us. I was 15 when they first got me.
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.
I had a fear of heights but I overcame that while shooting for ‘Luck.’ I jumped from a height of 2,000 feet for one shot.
I can’t really say my height has hindered me in the theater, though it really has hindered me in TV. It’s just something you have to embrace, your height.
As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.
People are so phobic and crazed about this word ‘commitment.’ It’s weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.
At its height, Rome’s empire stretched right along the coast of north Africa and sub-Saharan Africans passed to and fro across its porous southern border.
I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, ‘Tough.’
If I find a good pair of jeans, I’ll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I’ll end up wearing those two for everything.
Height is a funny thing in tennis because it definitely helps the serve, but it can hinder agility and movement. I think I have to spend a lot more time working on movement and flexibility than some of my shorter colleagues.
Madam Walker was an incredible woman, but she wasn’t the only one of her time who was. She just took it to the highest height.
When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.
I decided to write a crime novel. That genre was at the height of its popularity in Poland, so I thought it might earn me a bit of cash to go on with my work on ‘The Books of Jacob.’ I shut myself away for a few months and devoted myself entirely to ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.’
As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the ’80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez ‘New Teen Titans.’ That was definitely the book that hooked me.
Giant oak trees… have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
I remembered being young in the late ’70s and early ’80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun.
At the height of my film career I joined politics because I felt I had more to do than just act.
I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
If someone is quite tall, the people will sing songs about his height. We don’t have to overreact. You just have to do your job.
I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man… dating tall, beautiful women… But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.
Not that there weren’t great shows, and not that there wasn’t plenty of fine music played. It’s just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the ’90s.
