Height Quotations | Page 3

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

Meadow Heights is a really good 3-point-shooting team. We just got lucky tonight that they didn't shoot as well as they could've.

Obviously, we knew we had a height advantage and they knew we had a height advantage. The big thing was taking advantage of it. (Simpkins) had the game of her life.

A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.

For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

We knew that we had a height advantage. So we wanted to get a lot of quick hitters in the lane. Jake did a great job at getting me the ball.

We knew that this would be our toughest quarter as we reached the height of our reposition efforts, ... This is a difficult environment with the possibility of war with Iraq and the West coast port lockout challenges we face in the critical holiday season.

We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.

We have to go out and do the things that we do and try to do them well. Battle Mountain's got a good team. They've got the height advantage on us. We're going to have to play well. We're going to have to play good defense. We're going to have to box out. We're going to have to get on the boards, the fundamentals of basketball.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise