Size Perception Quotes

When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.

Some athletes aren't small, they're just short.

The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game.

The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.

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.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.

Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" he said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes."

Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

So a lot of people are like, "What are you thinking? Why are you buying size 10?" Well, I'm 5 feet 9 1/2 inches and a size 4. Even though that's what I wear, between a 4 and a 6, a 10 sometimes hangs better on me. Especially the not-as-good materials.

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

We have been told many times that we have become too big, but these are things that only someone who has no idea of the size of the competition can say. We are too small.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

I'm 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, which is average size in WWE, but in the world of television and movies, it's huge.

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.

At the end of the day, it just means 'curvy.' That's why I think the word 'plus-size' in the industry is very different from people's mind view of what 'plus-size' really should mean.

She thinks how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.