Tallest Quotations

It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.

A friend of mine introduced me to Thurston Moore because she thought I would like him. He was playing with the tallest band in the world, the Coachmen. They were sort of like Talking Heads, jangly guitar, Feelies guitar. Anyway, it was love at first sight. His band broke up that night. And we started playing.

Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.

I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.

I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.

I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than I really was. It really reflected how I felt about myself. I spent most of my youth in school feeling really insecure about the way I looked because I was different.

If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.

Obviously, this was the tallest building in town. I'm guessing it was six or seven stories tall. It had a massive head house where it picked up the grain. There was a pit outside where vehicles dumped grain. In the middle of the building was a big elevator that lifted the grain to the top of the structure and then moved it to the proper storage areas. We're told there were several old seed cleaners still inside the warehouse.

I can't pick out one move because he is so good at all his moves. He is a tough kid to guard. You have to give him credit. He is not the tallest kid out there, but he is real physical and he has some great moves.

He was the tallest kid I ever knew. That's how we started talking.

He's definitely the best, biggest and tallest guy I've played against.

I saw that one take off and I thought it was in the net. Especially since my keeper isn't exactly the tallest guy.

Our tallest dude is 6-3 and their tallest dude is 6-9. And when the 6-9 dude is shooting 3-pointers, it's hard to defend.

I think I can bring a lot to the triangle offense. Derek Fisher wasn't the tallest guard, but what he did is succeed and have a great career. I'm looking forward to learning from him. I've never played in the system, so I want to get there early.

I was the tallest kid in the class, and the play was about food. The kid who was playing the hamburger forgot his lines, and I said them, and there was all this laughter. When I came out for my bows, there was this burst of applause, and I loved it.

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?

We were intimidated by all that height. Everyone they had on their starting unit was at least as tall as our tallest guy. By the time we figured out we could play with them, use our quickness to offset their height, we were way behind.

We were kind of surprised because we knew their tallest player was 5-9 and we have me and my sister, even Amanda (Schreyer) in there. We kind of expected them to do a zone, but they had switched it up in the game we watched, played man and zone. So we knew there was a chance they would play man and we were ready.

We called W.W. Schrimsher 'Papa.' He was the tallest guy and he was a character, ... When I was growing up, everybody in the whole community had a nickname, and he was the one who named them all. He could start calling people a name and it just fit.

We're just saying it will be one of the tallest buildings in Orlando. We're not looking to get into a competition over who can build the biggest yacht, so to speak.

We knew they were going to fly a commercial airliner into the tallest building in California. And it was an analytic judgement by the intelligence community that that meant the Library Tower.

At 6-7, he's the tallest goalie I've ever played with, that's for sure. It probably helps with screens.

Constructed during a building boom in the 1950s, the 21-storey ICI Building was Australia's tallest freestanding office building at the time of its completion in 1958,

We felt all along that Zach would make a good post and, after all, he is the tallest we have. I know he'd probably like to play a little more outside, but he's our guy in there. He's so athletic and he's got a long reach.

With Jenny Whittle (197cm) and Tracey Beatty (202cm) we're by far the tallest and I think it's going to be very difficult for other teams to double and triple team me.

The thought of having to go against a 6-2 girl when my tallest is 5-9 is a little intimidating. From what I understand, she doesn't hit the ball really hard but she hits over the block. We'll have to make a few adjustments on defense. Lindsay Heiden (an Ida graduate) has been coming in so our girls can practice going against a 6-2 middle blocker.

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

The tallest player on our team is about 5-foot-8. And Connie is a lot taller. She is a force to reckon with. We had a hard time dealing with her all night.

The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.

We all had a go and we probably surfed the tallest waves of our lives.

(Defense) is what we rely on. We know we're not the fastest team, we know we're not the tallest team. So with teams bigger than us, we have to get our defense together.

That's why they're top Division-I athletes. They get the fastest, quickest, tallest players.

They're the tallest team in the state of Colorado in 4A.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf so if you fall you have something to reach for.

This is one of the first times I've stepped into the gym and I'm the tallest person there. I'm just over 5-8, so we're going to have to play tenacious defense and we're going to have to hit the ball smarter, finding better places to put and look for holes.

A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.

I'm not worried I'm the tallest or smallest guy out there. I just want to make plays. I'll let you guys worry about how tall and fast we are, ... (Belichick) is all about production, and that's what we try to do. I go out there and try to produce for him.

I'm like one of the tallest ones on 'Scandal.' If I'm wearing my four-inch Abby Whelan high heels, I hover over everybody. I literally have a lower pair of high heels that I wear when I do one of the scenes with the guys.

I had actually finished the manuscript of 'The Wild Trees' and turned it in to Random House when all of a sudden word came. Michael Taylor and his colleague, Chris Atkins, another explorer, have just knocked one out of the park. They found the world's tallest tree. The tree is named Hyperion, 379.1 feet tall.

I'm especially impressed by what Earl does. He's not the tallest guy in the world and to go and do what he does against those guys . . . I have a lot of appreciation for what they do.

Their rebounding hurt us a little bit. They have three guys that are taller than our tallest player and they're very physical. They do a good job crashing the boards and we had a hard time keeping them off.

That's a lot like saying the Empire State Building is the tallest building in New York, ... It's true but for all of the wrong reasons.

It was just a perfect ball. I'm the tallest guy out there, and he put it up high so nobody could get it but me.

He's one of those nice stories that you tell kids at banquets and they don't believe. He's never been our scoring threat, but he's become what we try to preach: He's very defensive. He's dependable and he plays within his limits. He knows he's not the fastest or the tallest or the best shooter. He uses his head to guard people.

He?s our tallest guy but yet he?s our best shooter. And for him to not be out there we?re definitely searching.

The Mt. Baker Ski Area near Seattle set the U.S. record in the 1998-99 season with 1,140 inches - exactly 95 feet. If you visualize 95 feet in terms of Kansas' tallest trees ... well, that's a LOT of snow.

The crown of a supertall redwood has a towering, cloudy, irregular form, and the crowns of the tallest redwoods can sometimes look like the plume of exhaust from a rocket taking off.

It's the tallest house in the neighborhood, because it's up on stilts, you know, pilings, and most of these houses are not. They're on slabs, and consequently those people really got hurt.

They're physical, and they like to get position on rebounds. It will be a huge key whoever wins off the glass. Their tallest player is the same size as our tallest player. It could come down to who wins on the boards.

All of sudden, Ebon was the tallest kid in school.

There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.