Amber Benson Quotes

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.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

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

In my family, I'm short.

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.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't know any different. I grew up in a very tall house, so I wasn't an anomaly there.

There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion.

People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something.

My arms are probably the same size as John Terry's legs.

I'm bigger than most two guards.

I'm small for 140.

I'm a lot bigger than a lot of these DBs.

People are so surprised about how small I am compared to other players.

I'm not seven foot, I'm about 6'9', 6'10', around that area. It's fine, I really don't care if I'm not as tall as everyone says I am. I'm doing fine.

Who is shorter, me or David Silva? I don't know. Probably him.

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.

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.