Size quotes
531 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me."
"There is not one standard definition of beauty or one perfect size."
"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."
"You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right."
"The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy."
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"Don't let your image, don't let your size, hold you back. If I had let my hips or my jiggly thighs hold me back or the fact that I've got these big heavy breasts, then I would not be where I am today."
"In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it."
"The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power."
"On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big."
"It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy"
"There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you."
"Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem."
"God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them."
"I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size."
"Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation."
"you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry"
"The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news."
"For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size."
"I feel like we have to have [plus size models] as soon as possible. We're the norm. We're the majority."
"It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts."
"Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size."
"Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word."
"My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it."
"You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill."
"Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened at large, they just gave up. They were like, 'I'm not doing any more adjectives; you just keep putting extras on there.' We could do better than that: small, medium, large, whoa, easy, slow down, stop it, interesting, American."
