A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.
You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.
One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.
If you grow up in a place, and you're small, even if the place is itself also small, it's huge to you. It's what's out there: it's the world outside of your door.
I'm a lot bigger than a lot of these DBs.
It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.
A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!
Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller.
It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.
Smaller-than-Medium-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock
Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.
The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.
Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.
Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.
Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.
As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: "Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.
My sisters are stronger and my brother's bigger than me.
MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
In my family, I'm short.
