It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those two for everything.
The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
My height is immaterial; it's my heart and mind which count.
In the height of summer, a ripe cantaloupe is one of the most intoxicating pieces of produce under the sun.
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
'NME' and 'Melody Maker' were saying I was the next Lou Reed or Van Morrison. So, everyone has their own version as to when the height of my career was.
The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.
The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.
Tony Blair adopted the accent of the audience he was speaking to, which worked very well initially, but then voters began to perceive him as phoney. The 'man of the people' act is the height of condescension.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.
In the early stages, when I realized I was going to be probably the shortest player on the teams I was on, it was hard. I felt like girls were getting recruited over me strictly because of their height, and it made me self-conscious.
I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
