Height Quotations | Page 5

Their height and size eventually just wore us down.

The feeling has been that the height of the walls is sufficient to discourage fans from jumping out of the stands all the way onto the field. Our security has video of the incident. It will be fully reviewed, and a determination will be made on whether changes are needed in our policies and procedures in this area.

I knew before I took the job, when I saw her as an eighth-grader, that she had clear D-I potential. The combination of her height and skills and athletic ability is really rare. She's the best player I've ever coached, and overall I think she's dealt with the pressure very well.

In Charlotte County, they are dealing with this every day. If we don't get some significant rainfall in the next few week we're going to be in a serious situation as we get into the height of fire season.

In 1961, Jackie Gleason, who was then at the height of his fame, premiered a game show called 'You're in the Picture.' It was so bad that Gleason came back the next week, sat down on a stool on a bare stage and apologized to the American public for that terrible show.

If there is a tie at (7-6) they will then look at the overall misses throughout the entire meet. Moffat had cleared 7-5 on his first attempt, I attempted and missed, therefore if at the next height we both missed he would win based on having no misses I had to clear 7-6 no matter what if I wanted to win, so I was only given two attempts at the following height because of my decision to pass.

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.

Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

I guess that gives me a height to go for next year.

It has high-quality marble running the full height of the building. It's nice, but not fancy.

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.

I am an actor who turned hero at age 32, after many years of struggle. I wanted to break the stereotype that only good-looking men with a good complexion, height and physique can be heroes, which I have managed to do.

His height is something he's lived with all his life and it's his main feature but he's got great feet,

Caldwell has some very fine guards, they just don't have the height that we have this year. We have some excellent guards as well, but fortunately for us we was able to get rebounds that they couldn't.

Hey, we're excited about proving something to everybody. We all make each other better. We got together this year and said, 'Hey, let's turn this program around.' We have guards, height and quickness. And we can all shoot a little bit.

He's this kid growing up in a small town in Ireland in the 70's--you know the height of the troubles in Ireland, ... He discovers he's an adopted orphan and that his father is actually this parish priest, played by Liam Neeson. So it's just this crazy mad journey that he goes on to find his love.

I don't really have a secret to it. I'm just really aggressive towards the board and read the ball and get in front of the girl. My height doesn't help me, but I love getting inside and being physical.

I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.

Because of his height and some of the things he can do. I don't know if many people have seen some things he can do. But if he can make his dunks, he can make his way to the final.

The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

Heights don't bother me...It's falling and cracking my skull that freaks me out.

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

'Summer Heights High' is one of my favourite shows of all time. I'm obsessed. I re-watch it all the time.

I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.

I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and letting them take care of you. I actually have no cynicism about that.

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

I am very proud of the girls. They were tougher to match up offensively because of the height inside.

He's not at the height of his career but there's still a lot of good games for him to pitch. We talked at the end of the year about certain things he could do to return to what he's done in the past.

He showed us the golden-haired doll, two feet in height at least, and dressed in silks and satins. A long 'Oh' swept from the little girls in the audience.

Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:/ What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang)?

I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.

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.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

Making fun of anyone's size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

In LA, I'm twice the size- height and everything else- of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.

I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.

The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her head and her lips found my collarbone, teasingly shy of my old scar. Tendrils pulsed in time with my heart, building on the ones before to an unseen height.

The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.

You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.

Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

I personally love heights and roller coasters, I'm such an adrenaline junkie.

The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

This feels good, being back in Michigan... You know, the trees are the right height.

The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.

As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.

You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it could be sentient. There's no limit to the height that you can reach in terms of design once we figure out how to design things, theoretically.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

Remember to negotiate thickness as well as height on the lettering of your name.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.

One can imagine a kind of hormonal arms race or genetic arms race, whether it's to do with height or IQ, conceivably, in the future. So it's limitless, and that's another of the features that sets it apart from medical intervention.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

Despite the mythic heights to which he was raised, Azikiwe was nothing if not pragmatic, a realist always conscious of his limits and ever eager to extract all that was possible from that limited horizon.

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

You can talk about height and angles and position all you want. I just wanted it more than they did.

This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspirations: He was a super soul-music man, but he was also a jazz musician, too. I see him as the height of honest expression.

The cycle is fit for both adults and children. The height and the handles are adjustable.

The first we heard about a height issue was when (a Sun Herald reporter) called the other day.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.

The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.