Tall Quotes

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln

Matter, Growing

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Mae West

Love, Happens, Neighbor

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. Eliot

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.
Will Smith

Old, Often, Used

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle

Men, Real, Gunpowder

I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.
LeBron James

Basketball, Call, Anybody

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.
Harvey Fierstein

Time, Good, Help

I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.
Julia Roberts

Girl, Between, Chick

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
Madeleine Albright

Future, America, Nation

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Gore Vidal

Stand, Watch, Hours

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.
Paul McCartney

Rock, Long, Words

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.
Steve Martin

Short, Star, Movie

I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
Adele

Big, Walk, Quite

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
Julia Child

Business, Remember, Advantage

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.
Liam Neeson

Education, Successful, Game

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter Scott

Won, Tree, Fruit

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.
Glenn Beck

Peace, God, Nothing

I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.
Tyra Banks

Lost, Friends, Within

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
Pam Grier

Character, Judge, Saying

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Masefield

Lonely, Down, Again

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
Jack Dempsey

Men, Down, Body

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.
Mel Brooks

True, Short, Rather

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.
Jon Meacham

Love, Faith, Strength

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.
Maria Sharapova

Good, Cool, Tell

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
Mike Pence

Government, Today, Strong

I'm never happy with my face, my hair, I haven't really got any boobs and I'm not really that tall.
Ellie Goulding

Happy, Hair, Face

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
Bram Stoker

Black, Light, Broken

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
Raymond Chandler

Great, Research, Deal

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
Imelda Marcos

Beauty, God, Mind

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
Truman Capote

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