Tall Quotations | Page 4

In its true sense, storytelling is a therapeutic art. It's therapeutic in that it restores imagination and that sense of being connected to our humanity. And that comes out in an event like the Tall Tales Oscars, because it is a kind of indulgent celebration of our human weaknesses, and laughter is the best therapy of all.

In an ideal world, you would have all your players funded and tied down. It can work the other way. You could bring in a player on big wages and a long contract and find he quickly falls out of form. I'm sure there are numerous examples of that in the past and possibly at Hearts. This way we can look at, for example, Ibrahim Tall (on loan till January) and if he does well, great, we can exercise our option and, if not, say thanks very much and off he goes.

I'm not a very tall guy, but I can jump. (Tillman) did catch the ball, but, you know, I wanted it a little bit more than him.

I'm not an M.D. or a Ph.D., ... but as a mom of four, I've studied at the feet of experts, both tall and small.

I like men who have goals, something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys!

I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

Imports are about twice as large as exports, so just to stabilize the deficit, exports have to grow twice as fast. That's a pretty tall order. Then you throw oil on top of it.

I'm pretty optimistic. We are not really tall or flashy, but are fundamentally sound. We have a majority of our team returning.

In each of the top-performing minivans, the curtain airbags did a good job of keeping the dummies' heads from being struck by the intruding barrier. This is important because head injuries are factors in many serious side impact crashes, especially when the striking vehicle is a pickup or SUV with a tall front end.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

I'm tall with broad shoulders, and therefore, I like clothes with a bit of a swagger - mannish clothes that you can wear with a lot of feminine, sweet tops. I put my own looks together - a favourite coat, a bit of vintage, a bit of high street.

If there's one message I want to convey, it is this: exciting breakthrough products made this company and those kind of products will make our company stand tall again.

I had a chance to put it away. With a tall guy jumping out, I tried to get it off quick. He was tall and he had his arm stretched out. I maybe could have pump-faked, but it was a spur-of-the- moment thing.

I like to adjust while I'm in the air because I'm not as tall as some of the other guys.

I remember my earliest images of New York came from movies, and I couldn't believe that people lived on top of each other in tall buildings.

I remember leaving her office feeling so proud that she was my senator, and I also remember thinking that girls can grow up to be anything, ... What I remember most is her telling me to always stand tall for what I believed in.

Illinois State is a talented team, and the game will be a tall order for us. It will be a challenge for us to match up with them.

I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artwork's sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

I pointed out the window and said I would put a 40-foot tall piece right there. I wasn't even 30 yet.

I guess we open up with the big one. It's a tall order, but the girls will be excited about it. We've got to be ready to play, to give it our best effort, to get as many rebounds as we can at both ends of the floor.

It ended up raining, so we had to go indoors. The courts were very quick. They had a lot of big hitters, mostly big tall kids. I think that was definitely an advantage for them to be able to play on that type of surface. They're definitely an indoor team. I think if we had played them outdoors, it might have been a different story.

I just don't know who can compete with Pfizer -- it's a pretty tall order.

I played against Andre in college. He's tall (6-3), but I'm not worried about the height. There are a lot of guys in the NFL that are taller than me. I am probably one of the shortest (5-10). I'll work through that.

By high school, I was already tall - 5-foot-8 - and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant.

Children come out to the front lawn and have absolutely nothing to do unless they are tall enough and interested enough in basketball. Sometimes they can create some mischievous games.

Behind everyone who behaves as if he were superior to others, we can suspect a feeling of inferiority which calls for very special efforts of concealment. It is as if a man feared that he was too small and walked on his toes to make himself seem tall

He's tall and quick and moves the ball around, and he's got the potential to play a big role in the Ashes.

He's tall and has a good vertical jump. But speed is the difference. Most drills are time-based drills, so speed makes the difference.

He's put us under pressure right through the series. He's a tall guy that made all our batters play.

Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to be creatively. It changed me in that it was a new way of doing my creative process, and I realised how much I liked being among tall trees.

Charlie, what can you say, big heart, big, tall lad. He bounced it into the deck on a very flat surface and it got us home.

He's very good with his back to the goal. He's tall and can head and flick ball, and is a great finisher.

He's a muscular kid. A lot of kids you think of as tall and lean, and he doesn't exactly fit what you'd think of as the Michael Phelps and Tom Dolan look.

He's an overachiever. If you look at him you'd never think that he is a talented wrestler. He's tall and lanky and not very muscular, but he's a gifted athlete. He's also a good student and a leader on campus. His main attribute is his work ethic. He just works harder than most kids. Hopefully, he'll be a state champ for us.

George could literally score at will. There just wasn't anyone who was tall enough or strong enough who had that same sense of prowess. The fact that he was athletic and he could position himself pretty close to the basket made him literally unstoppable.

I like stripper shoes. I like being tall because I'm claustrophobic.

I'd say Calais is almost a picture replica of us. They're very quick, they're not tall and they like to get out and run like we do.

I am not hung up on the big 6-foot-2 type of back. For me, it is physical strength. Can they physically hold up? I don't care how tall they are. A smaller, stronger back is better for us because hiding behind 6-foot-5 (quarterback) Jeff Rowe in the pistol sure helps.

I believe it does take tall pitchers longer to put it together. Look at Johnson. It took him a few extra years. The parts that go into the mechanics of a delivery are longer. It just seems to take a tall pitcher longer to get to that point where they can repeat their delivery.

He's more natural looking than the others with his footwork and they threw him in the fire and he did pretty well. And Coach (Pete) Carroll likes long, tall corners.

Carroll was awesome. She's been pitching well and stepping up her game. She fits right in on the varsity level. She's tall and looks very athletic out there and when she throws the ball, she's a real presence.

He can dominate offensively and he can also stop anyone in this conference between 6-feet tall and 6-10. He?s a load for us and every other team in this league.

Gotta do it. Gotta do it. And it's a tall order against a group that has five first-round draft choices in the front seven. It ain't going to be easy, but we've got to commit to it and we will.

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

Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.

You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!

The marble columns will stand tall like silent sentinels and the busts of the great Americans which line the upper wall will study our every move-sometimes approvingly, more often than not with raised eyebrows. As always.

Their keeper is tall and athletic. He was getting a lot of the balls in the air.

These are entry-level jobs in an economy that was an agrarian society for 5,000 years. ...And it's not the fact that the Chinese don't put children to work. What happens in the eastern provinces is the kids in the farms, as soon as they're old enough and tall enough, fake their IDs so they can earn enough to help support their families.

You can start with the fact that I am tall and thin and he was short and pretty chubby and very hairy. I was also an Aussie.

The heads of both dummies were protected from being hit by any hard structures, including the intruding test barrier. Side airbags, especially those designed to protect the head, are key in reducing risks to people in side impacts. The Institute's test represents a crash in which the striking vehicle has a tall front end like a pickup or SUV, so head protection is critical.

The Hawaii Medal of Honor is a symbol of our remembering those who stood tall for our values so that we may live in a land perpetuated in righteousness.

A girl like you that is not necessarily super tall or has a model proportion has to be almost perfect and you nearly fell off this runway.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

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.

All three of them, their goal is to medal. Now, that's a tall task. But I think it's a worthy goal.

Tall, dark, and gruesome." -Tori

An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.

And a long tall woman will make a preacher lay his Bible down - But a big, fat mama will make a mule kick his stall down

The last two years I've gone to (West's) summer open mats and coach Nicola has helped me out a lot. I knew I'd have some good workout partners at West and it's actually a lot better fit for me here academically. The past two years I've cut more weight than I should have. I'm more tall and lean but I'm mostly muscle and I have more energy not cutting so much.

Usually, I get hired because I`m tall.

I am too tall [to dance]. Tall people don’t dance. It’s just not right.

I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.

You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens.

It was a tall young oysterman lived by the riverside.

They call me Superman, Leap tall hoes in a single bound, I'm single now, Got no ring on this finger now, I'll never let another chick bring me down, In a relationship, save it b*tch, babysit? you make me sick, Superman aint savin sh*t, girl you can jump on shady's d*ck, Straight from the hip, cut to the chase, I'll tell a mo'f***in sl*t to her face.

The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective