Height Quotes

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.