Inches Quotes - Page 11

• Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of Jesus. He never mentions the shepherds or the manger, but he didn't want us to miss the star and the seekers. It's easy to see why. Their story is our story.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Stars, Squares

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• [Mikhail] Gorbachev said that he would agree to the unification of Germany, and even adherence of Germany to NATO, which was quite a concession, if NATO didn't move to East Germany. And [George] Bush and [James] Baker promised verbally, that's critical, verbally that NATO would not expand "one inch to the east," which meant East Germany. Nobody was talking about anything farther at the time. They would not expand one inch to the east. Now that was a verbal promise. It was never written. NATO immediately expanded to East Germany.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, East Germany, Talking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• [Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Beautiful, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.

  Kieran Hebden

  Black And White, Firsts, Tortoises

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

  David O. Russell

  Distance, Character, Way

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Meeting Justin Bieber was interesting. We were backstage at The Voice, and he was there premiering his "Boyfriend" music video. I was in six-inch heels, so I was towering over him like a giant.

  Erin Willett

  Voice, Interesting, Giants

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• A basketball diameter is 10 inches and a rim is 18 inches so I made a 14-inch rim I put in to practice on. Few people could do that because it was so frustrating that it drove everyone but me nuts. That led to me shooting very high, which basic physics tells you is the best angle - the hole is bigger from above than from the side.

  Dolph Schayes

  Basketball, Nuts, Practice

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• I'm a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I'm not going to get any taller.

  Kevin Hart

  Feet, Tall

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• Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

  William Dean Howells

  Blessing, Gun, Eight

  William Dean Howells (2015). “American Literary Centers: From 'Literature and Life'”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead.

  Groucho Marx

  Smell, Six, Mink

  "Fictional character: Emile J. Keck". "Double Dynamite", www.imdb.com. 1951.

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• Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.

  Joe Hart

  Newton, Figs, Force

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• For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best.

  Philip Roth

  Loyalty, Baseball, Strong

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• Did you ever notice, when you are sitting at a red light, that when the person in front of you pulls up a couple of inches, you are compelled to move up too? Do we really think we are making progress toward our destination? "Whew, I thought we would be late, but now that I am nine inches closer, I can stop for coffee and a danish!"

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Couple, Coffee, Moving

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• There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus does not cry out, 'This is mine!'

  Abraham Kuyper

  Jesus, Squares, Doe

  Abraham Kuyper, James C. Schaap (1997). “Near Unto God”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If you think you can experience the power of the Internet on a 1-inch screen, you've got to be out of your mind.

  Martin Cooper

  Thinking, Mind, Internet

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• Yeah, I screamed in Daniel Radcliffe's face. We were both doing Letterman. I grabbed him by the shoulder. Of course, I'm in 6-inch heels. That makes me 6-foot-4. I'm towering over him, saying, 'I love Harry Potter!' His security people were nodding to each other - should we go?

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Feet, People, Faces

  The Daily Beast Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along.

  Meghan Trainor

  Moving, Boys, Night

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• What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

  Neil Peart

  Dream, Musician, Looks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It is important not to show too many inches at once.

  Blake Butler

  Important, Shows

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after.

  Peter Orner

  Stories, Done, Beats

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's more about subtracting every single buck from the tourists that still flock there. Gentrification and the need for developers to maximize their profits from every square inch of the place means that there just aren't any scruffy little basement clubs left. Those scruffy little basement clubs were the areas lifeblood. Now, it's all penthouse flats and global brands. They destroyed the very thing that drew people there in the first place - it's superficial sleaziness.

  Derek Ridgers

  Mean, Squares, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Plot, Want

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• So a lot of people are like, "What are you thinking? Why are you buying size 10?" Well, I'm 5 feet 9 1/2 inches and a size 4. Even though that's what I wear, between a 4 and a 6, a 10 sometimes hangs better on me. Especially the not-as-good materials.

  Molly Sims

  Thinking, Feet, People

  "Molly Sims on Fashion, Motherhood and Staying Healthy". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Women today leave the house in animal prints and six inch stilettos, what does that say? I'm going to church? They're saying I want you to hang me by my tits from your ceiling and bite my ass. You know what I mean? That's what it says to me anyway.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Mean, Animal, House

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.

  Martial

  Girl, Nice, Giving

  "Epigrams". Book by Martial, IV, 71, c. 80 - 104 AD.

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