Best 281 quotes in «height quotes» category

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about stupidity.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

I love seeing the people that I have worked with reach new career heights.

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths.

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

I'm terrible at heights. I hate it. I'm glad I'm only 5'7".

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.

I'm still pretty terrified of heights.

I'm scared shitless of heights.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.

i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank.

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will always pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle!

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

I personally love heights and roller coasters, I'm such an adrenaline junkie.

Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!

I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the precipice of the plane, when I realized what scared me the most, the unknown.

It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

I was a teenager in the '80s - and maybe I'm wrong about this - but it seemed like a bad era for movies that were scary. It was really the height of movies that were disgusting.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.

Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

Keep on pushing the boundaries and reaching for higher heights.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.

Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets…. The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now lets work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life. Eliminate sabotaging habits and instill the needed positive habits, and you can take your life in any direction you desire, to the heights of your greatest imagination.