Words matter. These are the best Tall Quotes from famous people such as Skai Jackson, Noah Hawley, Lauren Tom, Harry Seidler, Jon Meacham, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m only five feet tall, so I’m short.
When I sold my first book, ‘A Conspiracy of Tall Men,’ it was part of a two-book deal. It wasn’t hugely lucrative, but it was enough money for me to quit the paralegal job I had in San Francisco.
If I was blond and tall, then I would have had 10 times the competition. I auditioned steadily and performed for everyone who would hire me. Now I am in a position to pick and choose my roles.
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.
In America, now, let us – Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever – fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one’s enemies. A tall order, that – perhaps the tallest of all.
Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
I’m a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.
When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.
I was once six feet tall, but at 85, I’m now five feet four.
In my school days, everyone thought I’m too tall for a Chinese girl.
I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I’ve to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.
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.
Growing up, I was quite self-conscious about getting too tall, but then I realized, ‘You know what? I can use it to my advantage. Big is beautiful.’
To me I’m just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I’m in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he’s kind of my bodyguard.
I just like boys who are good-looking, really! I like people who are tall with a good sense of style. My faves are the indie look, the smart look or the surfer look.
There have been top supermodels in the past that weren’t as tall as the industry demands, like fashion icon Kate Moss.
I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.
I don’t have any characteristics that are usually associated with a villain. Like I am not tall, broad-framed or have any scars on my face.
It’s amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body type doesn’t matter because you can do anything.
People tend to shy away from tall guys who dance, but hey, we can make it look good, too!
And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.
My dad was this pint-sized Nigerian with an oversized personality. My mother is a tall six foot something Irish-English woman. Us walking down the street was quite an unusual sight, when I was growing up.
Some are short, others are tall, others are thin, others are stocky. But we are all human beings. Can we not live together and happily within one border?
Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.
I’m pretty unassuming, at least I think. I’m tall, but other than that, that’s where it stops.
One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees – it’s sort of like everyone’s the same. Everyone’s going to be the same, we’re all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, ‘We’re all okay.’
I don’t think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn’t have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.
The Hamirpur parliamentary segment stands tall with projects across sectors ranging from educational institutes, health facilities, roads and railway. My focus will be on ensuring their timely completion.
I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
So we have the story of who we are. I’m a man, and I’m a comedian, and I’m a tall man. I have big teeth and all these things, and I like the first two Batman movies, and I don’t drink coffee, or whatever it is.
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
People ask me what it’s like to be tall, and I don’t know what to say because I don’t know any different. I grew up in a very tall house, so I wasn’t an anomaly there.
I wish I were tall, like my friend Lee Kwang Soo.
I’m tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I’m into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I’m pretty much a normal person’s size, just stretched out.
Everybody knows that, in general, a basketball player needs to be tall and a fashion model needs to be skinny, but how skinny is too skinny?
In real life I’m a tall, blond Christian.
My greatest hope is that we will see a day when Israel will stand tall as a symbol of belonging across the Jewish world, and when global citizens will look to Jerusalem as the vibrant, modern, inclusive capital of Israel.
I had no idea I was going to be this tall. Had I known that, I honestly would have stuck to basketball.
The first person I ever really got starstruck over was Nicole Kidman, because I looked up to her. When I was younger, I wouldn’t get parts because of how tall I was. I had the body of a 15-year-old but the face of a 12-year-old. I always looked at Nicole Kidman and thought, ‘Oh well, she works.’
Three surgeries on the same limb, that’s a tall order.
I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it’s so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It’s not like everybody is the same.
I tell everyone that I’m 5 feet-1 inch tall, but I think I’m technically 5 feet. My mom says she’s 4 feet 11 inches, and I’m barely taller than her.
I like to watch a lot of Kevin Durant, Brandon Ingram and Giannis Antetokounmpo – those tall lanky wings that can handle the ball and shoot it.
When I was sixteen I was terrified and I vowed never to surf waves over ten feet tall.
When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
My favorite kick is the roundhouse. I’m very capable of kicking a tall person in the head with a roundhouse.
Writing ‘Jughead’ in general is a pleasure because – and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me on this – there was a time in my teenage years where I just ate all the time and never got full.
In comedy, it’s not the glamorous, beautiful people that are great at comedy. They’re either every man or every woman, they’re either quite tall and lanky or shorter and fatter or have a big nose. They have something physically about them that makes them into a comic stereotype.
Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don’t be fooled, he’s as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He’s an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
Even in pictures, people think that I’m over five feet, and when they meet me in person, they’re like, ‘Oh, you’re so short. I didn’t expect that because you look so tall in pictures!’
The problem with being married to an athlete who is, like, 19 feet tall and can just eat, like, 17 burgers at 11 o’clock at night is, you’re like, ‘I’ll have just three of those burgers,’ and you think you’re being good because he had 19 and you had three!
I didn’t pay attention and I was 99 kilos. I am tall, I am big. But 99 kilos, close to 100 kilos – that’s too much. I felt like I was going boxing.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
I’m an average guy, skinny, not so tall, I put my sunglasses on, and I blend in.
When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short – I was tall.
I’m not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It’s kind of artsy, and I’m artsy. And I love clothes.
I was a mischievous child. I was also on the tall side.
I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can’t. But that’s okay. I’m tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.