Tall Quotes

I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.
Patti LaBelle

Strong, Night, Standing

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
Albert Finney

Truth, Someone, Lie

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.'
Jon Landau

Music, Work, Best

It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.
Garrett Hedlund

Down, Looking, Stage

I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.
Karlie Kloss

Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.
Karlie Kloss

Different, Others, Clothes

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Yakov Smirnoff

Love, Freedom, Father

I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.
Kristin Davis

Men, Eyes, Green

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.'
Nicholas Hoult

Time, Remember, Actor

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.
Keith Miller

Afraid, Feet, Six

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
Uma Thurman

Funny, Looking, Weird

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.
Esther Williams

Time, Thought, Around

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.
Bram Stoker

Long, Single, Black

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.
Elle Macpherson

Time, Beautiful, Remember

I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.
Donna Mills

Women, Show, Possible

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.
George Weinberg

In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.
Mark Burnett

Down, Succeed, Social

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.
Claudia Schiffer

School, Same, Wanted

I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don't mind it now, but back in the day I hated it. I would tell myself that what I think is ugly at 17 is actually what's going to be pretty about me later.
Giuliana Rancic

Mind, Thought, Enough

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.
Kristin Chenoweth

Thought, Pretty, Used

I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.'
Elizabeth Berkley

Tell, Answer, Taller

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
Michael Mandelbaum

Value, City, Trade

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.
Rachel Maddow

Thought, Proud, Idea

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
John O. Brennan

Fear, Deserve, Nor

I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.
Warwick Davis

After, Short, Run

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
Warwick Davis

Work, Made, Short

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
William Weld

Government, Greatest, Wrong

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Linda Ellerbee

Courage, Laughter, Laugh

And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.
Aisha Tyler

School, Black, Living

What's so wonderful about being 6'3". What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?
Regis Philbin

Men, Short, Wonderful

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