Best 411 quotes in «size quotes» category

I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container.

I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

It is almost impossible to grow a company of any size and worth unless you expand beyond yourself

It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.

It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.

It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

It’s about, when did it make sense to say one size fits everybody? It never ever ever made sense to do that, and yet we’re still selling education the same way we sold it when you and I were in high school.

It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.

It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems.

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy

It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.

It's not the size of the house. It's how much love is inside.

It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts.

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

It was hard to find a board my size. I was tiny.

I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day. Perhaps it would be within bounds to say that without railroads to bind the States into one homogeneous whole, the Nation never could have attained its present size and importance.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.

I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.

I want to talk about things that are quantifiable, not a bunch of metro riders and crowd sizes.

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour!

I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious? I've cooked bigger turkeys than her "before" picture.

I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!

I was the first size 14 model to be featured in an ad in the magazine,I was the first size 14 model on the cover!

I went up a pants size during my pregnancy.

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!

I would say, if you're buying less expensive clothes, buy two sizes bigger. They'll hang better.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.

Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.

Making fun of anyone's size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.