History Quotes / ExpectingSomeoneTaller

-->-- '''Senator Vreenak''', ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "In The Pale Moonlight"

-->-- '''Website/SFDebris''' reviewing ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "The Thaw"

->'''Karla:''' I've seen you on the viscasts of course, but you look different somehow -- [[InvertedTrope you're taller than I expected]].
->'''Deeta:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I usually stand in a hole.]]
-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "Death Watch"

->''"A king in Denmark was called Hrolf Kraki, and he was the most famous of all kings in the old time. (...) A poor fellow, called Vogg, once came to King Hrolf's hall when the king was still a young man and of rather delicate growth. Vogg went before him and looked at him. The king said: What do you mean to say, fellow, looking at me this way? Vogg answered: 'When I was at home, I heard say that King Hrolf at Hleidra was the greatest man in the Northlands, but now here sits in the high-seat a little stick and they call it their king!'"''

->"I had heard that you were a wise, regal vampire, several centuries old. I was slightly intimidated at the prospect of meeting you, truth be told. But sitting here... I find that you are actually very... ''[[UndeadChild cute]]''."

->''Mr. Muggleton had read reports and romances about the Great Criminologist, who sits in his library like an intellectual spider, and throws out theoretical filaments of a web as large as the world. He was prepared to be led to the lonely chateau where [[Literature/SherlockHolmes the expert wore a purple dressing-gown, to the attic where he lived on opium and acrostics]], to the vast laboratory or the lonely tower. To his astonishment he was led to the very edge of the crowded beach by the pier to meet a dumpy little clergyman, with a broad hat and a broad grin, who was at that moment hopping about on the sands with a crowd of poor children; and excitedly waving a very little wooden spade.''

->'''Gangrel:''' I'm Gangrel, King of Plegia! You the Summoner? Hahahaha! Thought you'd be taller!
-->-- ''Gangrel, VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes''