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Definition of Tall

Tall

High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.

Brave; bold; courageous.

Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive.

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Tall Quotations

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Mae West

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. Eliot

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
Paul McCartney

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.
Harvey Fierstein

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
Raymond Chandler

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
Truman Capote

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter Scott

I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.
Tyra Banks

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Gore Vidal

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.
Glenn Beck

I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.
Julia Roberts

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.
Sugar Ray Leonard

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
Madeleine Albright

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
Bram Stoker

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
Bram Stoker

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
Alex Haley

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
Mike Pence

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
Albert Finney

This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Yakov Smirnoff

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.
Lisa Leslie

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
Lisa Leslie

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.
Ryan Stiles

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.
Keith Miller

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.
Kristen Johnston

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
Jack Dempsey

I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.
Kristin Chenoweth

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels.
Elle Macpherson

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Tall Translations

tall in Dutch is verheven, hoog
tall in Finnish is korkea
tall in French is haut, mailloche
tall in Hungarian is magas
tall in Italian is grande, elevato
tall in Portuguese is alto
tall in Spanish is gran, alto, elevada

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