#tall

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. ↗

— Truman Capote

#i #just #noisy #shotgun #tall

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#also #because #being #believe #career

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#make #men #real #tall #use

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternal #expressive #gifted #heart #himself

The good thing is I don't put the ball in my right hand and I'm predominantly left-handed when I'm running the ball. I just have to take care of the football and even if I have two hands that are 100 percent, I still can't turn the ball over. It's just something I have to mentally prepare for, and I think I'm strong enough to do that. ↗

— Michael Vick

#care #enough #even #football #good

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#come #day #dollar #globalization #illiterate

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high. ↗

— George Catlin

#being #crow #dress #elegant #feet

I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#called #cute #i #people #pretty

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe. ↗

— Julia Child

#air #always #being #breathe #business

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America. ↗

— Lee Child

#clashes #diversity #dozens #fascination #freak