Simon Hoggart Quotes

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

I've always been really tall and lanky.

I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.

I'm a lanky girl, naturally.

I don't think I resemble a superhero at all, really. I don't think people would really imagine me to be a superhero. I certainly don't have the physique for it, and I'm not tall enough, etc.

I'm five foot three. I don't look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I'm 12.

My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

When I was 16, I was like any other boy at that age who dreams of having a good physique.

People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

I'm not gangly; I'm very coordinated. I do have a bit of a baby face. But I guess that just means I'll be working longer.

Presidents seem to fall into two positive categories: they're one of us, or they're heroes. Both McCain and Obama probably see themselves as potential heroes - presidents who will be looked up to, not presidents everyday people will remark are 'just like me.'

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.

In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops, and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

I think looks do matter on television.