“When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.” EnoughBigsSchoolGrowthBoysFatsTallPolicemenSecondary School Author:Alfred Molina
“How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!” BigsBoysFeetSixNineTallInches Author:Mae West
“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.” FirstsKidsAgeSchoolBeautifulGirlThreeVoiceVisionBoysGrowingMagicMiddleSummerShotsSkinsMiracleTeethContactFixedBreastsFlawsTallInchesLensesEmergingDoveCrookedMiddle SchoolBracesBlurryContact LensesCrooked Teeth Book:The Age of Miracles Source: The Age of Miracles
“I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.” ThinkingPlayCharacterTurnsThreeBoysWrittenSilentTallTall Women Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
“The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.” ShouldLittlesSaidTwoHalfBoysPracticeDogTvsClothesFingersParksTallBullyOther HalfTrailersTrailer Park Book:Levitating Las Vegas Source: Levitating Las Vegas
“Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath their makeup they are still recognizably themselves. For boys it is far more disorienting. Puberty comes later, sometimes much later, and its delay is humiliating. While the tall round girls are getting themselves up like grown women, the prepubertal boys, with their featureless, hairless bodies, are just dirty little kids who could pass for the children of the hypermature girls.” ChildrenLittlesStillsSometimesBodyKidsGirlGrowsBoysRoundsObviousDirtyDramaticMakeupTallDelayLittle KidHumiliatingPubertyGrown Women Author:Frank Pittman
“We're gonna do it like George Foreman. We're gonna name all of our kids Mariah no matter if they're boys or girls. Mariah No. 1, Boy Mariah, Man Mariah, Tall Mariah. It's gonna be a house full of people named Mariah.” PeopleIfsMenMatterKidsGirlHouseNamesBoysTall Author:Nick Cannon
“You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference how tall the actors are, because I needed to know that if Olivia Wilde sits in a car that the director, Joe Kosinski can still get the angle he wants, as opposed to maybe in another vehicle than Jeff Bridges has to sit in. So that was fascinating. Because in a real car you change everything and adjust it. But here you have one shot.” IfsKnowsWantStillsRealGirlActorsDifferencesBoysCarNeededDirectorsShotsToughTreatedWarriorBridgesMaking A DifferenceFascinatingTallVehicleAngleVersusWildeOliviaUnisex Author:Daniel Simon