All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!("The Jelly-Fish")
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You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison."What monsters may they be?"Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitude without known shape. Such monsters are the voids and waste places of the sky... In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited. Those deep wells for the human mind to let itself down into, leave alone the human body! and think of the side caverns and secondary abysses to right and left as you pass on!...There is a size at which dignity begins," he exclaimed; "further on there is a size at which grandeur begins; further on there is a size at which solemnity begins; further on, a size at which awfulness begins; further on, a size at which ghastliness begins. That size faintly approaches the size of the stellar universe. So am I not right in saying that those minds who exert their imaginative powers to bury themselves in the depths of that universe merely strain their faculties to gain a new horror?
Nessa held her arm up. She was staring at it, trying to gauge how big that was. __ude, that__ as big as my arm. That__ like being f****d by a limb dude!_ She wiggled her arm back and forth. __hat's not normal.
All right, my hope__ut I am not saying the rest of it__ have something you need to feel.__he feigned the sound of outrage. __ut we barely know each other, sir!__e laughed softly. __ut you must hold it in your hand and feel it change,_ he urged, in her ear. __ insist. I can wait no longer.__he knew they were on a serious subject, but the flutter of his breath on her skin, the low drawl of his words__eat raced along all her nerve endings. __ill I like it?___ell, I do have to apologize for its size. It is rather small._ And with that, he pressed something rather small into her hand.
It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.
Well... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size.
Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.
My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.
If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.