#height

I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! ↗

— Emily Brontë

#life

Life's too short. I'm not! ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#life

Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#wuthering-heights #love

I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples. ↗

— Lauren Collins

#height #high-heels #shoes #women #movies

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#existence #heightened #immensely #moments #more

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#get #height #hips #joints #lot

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

— Jack Dempsey

#come #down #height #hit #i

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#cleverness #come #down #green #heights

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues. ↗

— James Wolcott

#arts #being #country #declining #due