Only when you’re in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you’ve made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be.
The war broke out, and I wanted to do something to aid my country in a time of crisis. I was too tall for the WACs and WAVES, but eventually joined the OSS and set out into the world looking for adventure.
Don’t forget I’m from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and – how do you say – you can always protect yourself… I have very strong security.
When I was young, I never dreamed about winning a national championship. I didn’t even play basketball. But I was tall. And long. And had large hands. I was made for the game. It found me later in life, compared to most collegiate athletes.
As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it’s the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
I’ve been the same size since I was 12. They thought I was going to be 7 feet tall. I never grew another inch.
For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
Hugh Jackman, he’s so tall and big, he had to eat so much. It’s like Chris Hemsworth. You have to eat so much and spend so much money on food.
I’d hate to be the sort of player who people just regard as being tall and only good for winning headers.
I do a great deal of research – particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
Conan O’Brien’s the best. I’m glad he’s in L.A. because I want to move in with him. I was a guest on that show one time to promote ‘Human Giant,’ and he was the coolest, funniest guy. I was really impressed. He’s also eight feet tall and can shoot lightning from his fingertips.
I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you’re older, you’re really glad. I think it’s nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.
It’s the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.
I didn’t have the easiest childhood. I was never the popular girl in school growing up. I was always the lone black girl or the lone fat girl or the long tall girl, so that has made me more compassionate to all people. It also gave me the drive and ambition to go after my dreams in a big way.
Brook is my sounding board about everything – including being tall.
For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That’s where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.
If you can grab a ball and throw it, you can grab a ball and throw it. I don’t care how tall you are, either. I’m not gonna see over a 6-foot-7 left tackle. You’ve gotta find lanes; you’ve gotta know where your guys are. It’s not about the height: if you can win ball games, you can win ’em.
Remember to stand tall and tuck your tummy in – very important as you get older!
I’m adopted, so I didn’t know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.
The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn’t become a tall person until I was 16.
I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn’t be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I’m a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me.
I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn’t ashamed of being tall. But I don’t wear them any more because you don’t have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can’t even remember the last time I wore heels.
When the first armies were formed, combat took courage, which women share equally with men, and strength, which we do not. But though I am only 4 feet 7 inches tall, with a gun in my hand I am the equal of a soldier who’s 6 feet 7 – perhaps even at a slight advantage, as I make a smaller target.
I was someone who wore bright purple sweatsuits with tall Doc Martens boots. I would iron Hanson decals on my sweatshirt. I was extremely flamboyant as a child.
It’s very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.
I’m a firm believer in young, old, tall, short, doesn’t matter. Basketball is basketball. It’s the way you approach it.
President Barack Obama was amazing. You know how you imagine it would be to meet a celebrity, and that person may actually have a halo around them or something? Well, he did! He was tall, and he had a halo!
I’d want to have Gisele Bundchen’s body. Even though she’s tall and skinny, she does have curves… and I think that’s hot. Halle Berry also is kind of amazing.
I grew up, and my body was not like a Spanish player. I was tall. I had a powerful game; my arms were long, so I’m like, ‘No, you can’t play like Spanish players.’
It’s cool to be able to dunk. I’m pretty tall and pretty long. My body’s probably built more for basketball than for golf.
There’s not a lot of short quarterbacks in the league, but I think there’s more guys paving the way for the transition of not really caring about how big you are, how tall you are.
It’s not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.
I’m kind of a nervous person in general. I’m socially awkward. I’m not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.
Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I’ve been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
I’m a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
I eat tall, chinny, Eastern European heavyweights for breakfast.
In Manchester, you don’t have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.
‘Three Tall Women’ is kind of fascinating. I had never seen it itself, and I imagine the audience will find it very intriguing to watch the reveal of who these people are and how they interact in the second act.
Western beauty is considered the dominant beauty in the world. Tall, blond, blue eyes. I always felt a little self-conscious because I wanted to be more Caucasian. I tried to get bigger eyes… I would dress preppy.
Standardized tests don’t care if you’re white or black, short or tall, or even the rate at which you learned the course material. At the end of the day, all it cares about is whether you know what you’re supposed to know. It can’t be cheated, bent, or bargained with.
I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.
I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it’s easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really ‘big’ weighing around 350 pounds.
Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.
As a defender, you can be many shapes and sizes. You can be short and fast. Or you can be tall and jump high. It doesn’t matter. The only necessity is that you are confident when you take the pitch – because every week there is a new challenge.
When I first started playing basketball, my coordination was horrible! I went into high school at 6 feet and left at 6-7 and then grew another inch in college. Catching the ball, it was bad. I’ve always been pretty athletic, but when I got really tall, I just felt awkward.
I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.
As I’ve gotten older, I like longer dresses, but my legs come up to my ears, and I’m not very tall, so when I wear a short skirt,I’ve got to be really conscious.
I’m six feet tall. No one realizes that because on ‘The Daily Show’ I’m usually sitting.
I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, ‘If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.’ And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.
With the nation standing tall with the LGBT community, there is definitely a wave of change that we are finally witnessing.
Tall pitchers create leverage and angle, often inducing more groundballs and sometimes swings and misses.
I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, ‘Yeah, I’m tall because I’m a model.’
I don’t think you can set up a computer to do a strike zone on a guy who’s 6-foot-5 and then a guy who’s 5-8. Where does it draw the line? One guy stands tall, and another squats down, and it changes the lines. Nah. I still love the umpires; they do a great job. I don’t have a problem with any of that.
