“Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.” ShouldLongSaidEyeHappinessFormNightWhiteWonderfulHairBedSnowHis EyesDryTallEvery NightLong AgoBentSlenderJollyGait Author:George Arnold
“The people of America are red, white, black, yellow, and all the shades in between. Their eyes are blue, black, and brown, and all the shades in between. Their hair is straight, curly, kinky, and most of it in between. They are tall and short, slim and fat, athletic and anaemic, and most of them in between. They are the different peoples of the world becoming more and more the "in between." They are a people creating a new bridge of mankind in between the past of narrow nationalistic chauvinism and the horizon of a new mankind--a people of the world. Their face is the face of the future.” PeopleWorldDifferentEyeAmericaPastFacesBlackWhiteMankindHairBecomingCreatingRedBlueFatsBridgesBrownTallHorizonShadeYellowAthleticDifferent PeoplesBecoming MoreSlimKinkyChauvinismNationalistic Book:Reveille for Radicals Source: Reveille for Radicals
“I'm never happy with my face, my hair, I haven't really got any boobs and I'm not really that tall.” FacesHavensHairTall Author:Ellie Goulding
“Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention.” IfsShouldPersonsHappensAttentionToo MuchHairOughtDrinkMarriedRedObservationTallDeclinePregnantAstonishingRefrainOverweightWheelchairsRed Hair Author:Judith Martin
“I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.” HeartHardMotherHairCostNormalMouthsLovelyBitterTallVeinsLawnsPuddles Book:We Were Liars Source: We Were Liars
“Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.” LooksFacesYoungStrongBlackDestinyImagineFeetFieldsHairPureSixPoundsPrimeTallThickSmoothBrooklynFluidityIndomitableBlack HairCenturions Author:Roger Kahn
“Ive always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywoods eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs.” StillsBigsEyeSchoolPerfectFiguresHairBabyHigh SchoolHollywoodSticksTallSkinnyBlondeBootyBlonde HairPerfect Woman Author:Coco Austin
“The other thing is that I'm a pretty moody guy, but no one really wants to see a normal-looking guy complain about things or talk about being unhappy. That's hard. Most people are like, 'Well, you have all your hair and you're tall, so why are you unhappy?' That can be limiting.” PeopleWantWellsHardGuyHairNormalComplainingUnhappyTallComplaintsMoodyBeing Unhappy Author:Gary Gulman
“Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.” ShouldLooksWhiteFrontsHairBlueTeethShirtsTallJeansBugsBunniesBlue JeansWhite Hair Author:Salman Rushdie
“I’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-style. Rina found this incredibly sexy. It made me nervous. - Caitlin about Jeff” MadeBigsFacesFoundSidesStyleHairMetsSexyNervousShockTallMallsWhiplash Book:Dreamland Source: Dreamland
“Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.” StrongMemoriesSeaWindHairBirdGoldenGrassSandTallMy SisterSilkSpiralsGood MemoriesBuffetsOatsStrong WindsGolden Hair Book:The Memory of Water Source: The Memory of Water
“Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?” YearsBehindsGoneFireGrowingSeaWindHairMountainSpringShadowRedRainHorseWestBurningSmokeHillsTallHarvestCornHornsGlowingRidersMeadowsHarpsHelmTwo TowersRohan Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“Payton grinned. “You must be Chase.” As she extended her hand in introduction, she took the opportunity to give him a more thorough once-over. He had dark wavy hair and warm brown eyes. Very Pat-rick Dempsey/McDreamy-esque. Good build, not terribly tall, maybe only five-ten-ish, but since Payton measured in at exactly five-three and one-third inch, she could work with this” GivingHandsEyeThreeOpportunityDarkFiveHairTenThirdsWarmBrownTallInchesIntroductionThoroughBrown EyesMcdreamy Book:Practice Makes Perfect Source: Practice Makes Perfect