Height Quotes - Page 12

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.

I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

Remember to negotiate thickness as well as height on the lettering of your name.

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

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.

The cable industry has risen to new heights in their apparent willingness and ability to gouge the American consumer. Cable rates [have] increased an unbelievable five-and-a-half times faster than inflation.

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

On every mountain height is rest.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

I’m afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.

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

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those two for everything.

When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

Heights don't bother me...It's falling and cracking my skull that freaks me out.

I have a problem with heights in general - and climbing!

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.

After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

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

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?