Size
Definition: The relative extent of something; a thing's overall dimensions or magnitude; how big something is.
Alter or sort in terms of size or according to size. Having a specified size; sized. A gelatinous solution used in
glazing paper, stiffening textiles, and preparing plastered walls for decoration. Treat with size to glaze or stiffen.
Number of Quotes: 15
Beauty comes in all sizes - not just size 5.
Roseanne Barr
Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All
too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.
Richard Branson
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of
any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
Bernardus Carnotensis
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
Cyril Connolly
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
Alexandra David-Néel
There is a misconception that small is always more beautiful than big.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar,
for the great esteem he expressed for fat men, and his aversion to lean ones.
David Hume
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in
the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
Sam Kean
Generally, large companies are so inwardly directed that staff memorandums about growing bureaucracy get more attention than the dwindling competitive
advantage of being big in the first place. David, who has a life, needn't use a slingshot. Goliath, who doesn't, is too busy reading office memos.
Nicholas Negroponte
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man
inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?
George Orwell
In a small company, one person's hunch can be enough to launch a new product. In a
big company, the same concept is likely to be buried in committee for months.
Al Ries
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: The
bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.
In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
Alfred Hitchcock: One look at you, Mr Shaw, and I know there's famine in the land.
Bernard Shaw: One look at you, Mr Hitchcock, and I know who caused it.
George Bernard Shaw
Going to marry her! Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself ... There is enough of
her to furnish wives for a whole parish ... You might people a colony with her; or give an assembly with her; or perhaps
take your morning's walk round her, always provided there were frequent resting-places, and you were in rude health.
Sydney Smith
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
Edward Young
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