(211 quotes found)
“How tall are you big boy?Six foot nine inches!Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!”
Mae West
“Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies”
Chinese Proverbs
“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
T.S. Eliot
“Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts.”
Jack Handy
“Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.”
Truman Capote
“Not huffy or stuffy, nor tiny or tall, / But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.”
A. P. Herbert
“I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.”
Julia Roberts
“There is a lull to the very air of the place, the creaking of the tall teak forests, the lapping of the canals, the gentle swaying of the little kingfishers who sit like neat blue idols on almost every telegraph wire.”
James Morris
“[His characters] are always 7 feet tall and invincible, mine are 5 feet 8 and nervous.”
Elmer Kelton
“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”
Harriet Woods