#height

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

— Ernie Harwell

#brooklyn #career #height #his #i

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. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#deep #doing #fall #fallen #gravity

I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#back #back up #beginning #career #climb

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#external #heighten #imperfect #poetry #value

Tall men are the most romantically successful group on earth, bar none: more successful than rich people, accomplished people and educated people. ↗

— Arianne Cohen

#height #dating

It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#humour #mr-darcy #snooty #wuthering-heights #trees

Heathcliff. The "hero" of Wuthering Heights. Although no one knows why. He's mean, moody, and possibly a bit on the pongy side. Cathy loves him, though. She shows this by viciously rejecting him and marrying someone else for a laugh. Still, that is true love on the moors for you. ↗

— Louise Rennison

#tallulah-casey #wuthering-heights #dreams

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. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#depth #form #height #i #infinity

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well. ↗

— Julian Bond

#branches #doing #even #finances #grassroots

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

— Jack Dempsey

#come #down #height #hit #i