Height Quotes - Page 6

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.

Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.

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

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.

I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and letting them take care of you. I actually have no cynicism about that.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

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 first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.

My heaviness comes from the heights.

When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits!

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.