#height

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement. ↗

— Jim Gibbons

#government #height #incomplete #millions #millions of dollars

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home. ↗

— Edvard Grieg

#bach #beethoven #build #churches #dwellings

Exercise stimulates growth plates, by putting pressure on bone cells, forcing them to specialize and create new cells. Too much pressure, however, damages the growth plates, which are soft and fragile...The rule of thumb is that lifting one's own body weight (in push-ups,pull-ups, etc) is fine at any age, and kids over fifteen can lift weights. ↗

— Arianne Cohen

#height #weight-lifting #age

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#details #did #emptiness #eye #followed

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#ground #heights #keep #lofty #thoughts

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#fail #heights #mountains #out #recognize

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#height #nation #rise #side #unless

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#british #chorus #else #end #enjoy

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#boy #boy bands #exploded #great #height

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#always #appearance #especially #good #guest