I’m not a tall man. I’m just a hair under 5’5.
When younger, I was tall but very skinny. When I was 14, I grew and started gaining muscles. So I started doing sit-ups, abs work, press-ups, strengthening my core. I’d do 100-150 reps each day. I knew if my core was strong enough, I would get fewer muscle injuries.
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.
A tall woman can be just as feminine as a petite woman.
Stylistically, every fight in the division is a hard fight. Lyoto Machida is unorthodox, Jon Jones is long and tall with good wrestling, Ryan Bader has good wrestling. You can’t pick one and say, ‘I want to fight him.’
I always wanted to be less tall. When I was at school I was the same height as all of my girlfriends and then suddenly I was turning 12 and almost overnight I got really tall.
I love being tall. I see guys who don’t handle it so well, like that Dwayne Schintzius of Florida. I don’t want to sound ignorant or anything, but that guy’s got a problem.
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.
That’s my Republican Party, the Party of Lincoln, that believes America is an indispensable nation… an Evergreen Tree, standing tall in a turbulent world.
I am not a tall man.
It doesn’t matter if you’re big and tall or ugly or pretty. Deep inside, every actor wants to play Hamlet, at least I hope he does, because that’s the craft.
I’m not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive.
My father, to me, was 10 feet tall.
The Italian Fabio Cannavaro, who was with Real Madrid when I played against him several times, was the best player in the world in 2006. He wasn’t tall, but very quick and strong. He always knew his opponents well, as if he’d researched them.
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.
I played varsity on all of them for four years. I’m 5’9 and that’s not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.
I didn’t really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I’d tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.
Everything about Italy is hot: the climate, the people, the fashion, even the shape of the country – how much hotter can you get than a tall boot with a high heel?
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
I don’t have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
I’m the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard.
Some lady asked me once, ‘Is it hotter because you’re closer to the sun?’ She was dead serious. People are strange. But I love being tall and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.
I’m very tall, so I like a guy who’s bigger than me – it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don’t like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker.
I have been part of really good projects which I’m extremely proud of and ‘Chhichhore’ will stand tall among my body of work. This is my first Rs 100 crore film and I know I will cherish this moment always.
I have been tall a long time and learned to deal with it at a young age.
I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress – a fresh face. They need a woman who’s tall, athletic and dark-haired – and an actress who can play the part. That’s me. So, I’m coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if ‘Wonder Woman’ comes together, I want it.
I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they’d actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size!
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
Tim Miller’s idea of Colossus was to be bigger and stronger than everyone else, so for the motion capture, they needed an extremely tall man. I’m 6-foot-4, but he wanted Colossus to be over 7 feet, so they used a stunt double to recreate his height, and he did very good job there.
You don’t get to be in the squad unless you’re six feet tall, a supermodel, perfect, famous, and hot. That’s like hand selecting perfection, putting it into a group of girls, and saying, ‘Look how amazing we are.’
Bray Wyatt is like seven feet tall and seven feet wide.
I am a tall girl and I am not petite so maxi dresses look good on me.
I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.
I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
I was so tall and so skinny – I was that kid who couldn’t find anything to wear. All the cool kids would have jeans the right length and I would just think, ‘What am I going to do?’
I’m really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight – now I wish I hadn’t been quite so dumb!
I received many compliments for my work as Kavya. The best compliment is when people tell me that they learn from my character and love the way Kavya reacts to every situation, how real she is and how she stands tall all by herself.
For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not.
The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.
I’ve tried to show in my most recent book, the ‘Irresistible Fairytale’, that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre – a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on – we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
I feel as though I’m nice and that I’m down to earth, and – people like me get taken advantage of. So by being tall and outgoing, people mistake that for being overpowering, overbearing, loud, and being a bully. No, no I’m a flower.
You know I don’t want to fall. I’m a tall woman, and it’s a long way down.
It is tougher to control range on a guy who is as tall, lengthy, and busy as Amir Khan, who has a very good jab.
I’m really into tall boots. I just got some new ones from Michael Kors that have these little gold studs. I have Valentino ones that I really love. Real, real tall boots!
In 2008, no images dominated Hollywood’s viewfinders like theirs did. They’re rich… they’re gorgeous… sometimes, they get a little emotional. Also, they’re each about three feet tall. They’re the children of the famous, on newsstands and Web sites – the breakout stars of 2008.
We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.
My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
I’m learning to accept everything that I am. I’ve accepted that I’m not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body’s not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
I’m one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.
The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams’s ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzie.’
I like stripper shoes. I like being tall because I’m claustrophobic.
I thought to myself, What should I do for a living so that I can keep feeding myself? And I thought, Oh, I’m tall, so why not give modeling a try?
I’d like to get around 7-7, be as tall as Manute Bol, and someday block his shot.
We’ve got a thing called the ‘tall poppy syndrome’ in New Zealand, where if anyone is doing really well, it’s quite common to try and bring them down – like, cut them down and say, ‘You’ve been to the moon? So what? I mean, plenty of people have been to the moon.’
When you’re as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.
