Inches Quotes - Page 13

• When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

  Adam Rapp

  Perfection, Long, Inspire

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• You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.

  Ronald Reagan

  Athlete, Important, Olympics

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• And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality. Our job is to wake up to everything, because if we slow down enough, we see that we are everything.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Wisdom, Jobs, Causes

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I won't die. If I buy six cars, I won't die. If I hate Jews, I won't die. If I hate homosexuals, I won't die." They think they will increase their life by shunting misery onto somebody else, but it's just the opposite.

  Maya Angelou

  Nice, Hate, Thinking

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• You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.

  Mel Brooks

  Suicide, Feet, Three

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Feet, Three, Four

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• Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

  George Herbert

  Ells, Ill

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.298

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• I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

  Nat Wolff

  Nails, Nine

  "Nat and Alex Wolff". Interview with Christy Purington, www.timeout.com. July 20, 2009.

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• I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches.

  Dule Hill

  Feet, Average, Giving

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• The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

  Akshay Kumar

  Body, Pieces, Granted

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• A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.

  Buwei Yang Chao

  Dark, Clothes, Black

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• Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard.

  Monica Crowley

  Giving, Enemy, Yards

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• The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

  Steven Weber

  Games, Presidential, Facts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't drink, fight & womanise. I am not a wife beater. I don't do nude covers. I don't have a 12-inch long you know what ... I am quite boring.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Fighting, Long, Wife

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• When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,--and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Sacrifice, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.996, Delphi Classics

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• Being healthy isn't about inches, pounds, or how kids look - it's about how they feel and making sure they feel good about themselves. So rather than focusing on appearance, it's important to emphasize to kids that when we eat healthy food and stay active, we feel better, and we can perform better in everything we do, from athletics to academics.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Feel Better, Feel Good

  "Michelle Obama talks nutrition and 'wakeup call' moment in her family's past". Interview with Morgan Whitaker, www.aol.com. September 10, 2015.

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• Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis and Briseis are strong, passionate women and in another time and place their lives would have been very different. Part of the tragedy of their characters is how much they have to offer - and how little of that they get to realize. Thetis spends the whole novel fighting the limitations placed on her, desperately trying to eke out the best she can from a bad situation. This makes her fierce and terrifying.

  Madeline Miller

  Strong, Character, Fighting

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.

  Ramin Bahrani

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.

  John Sexton

  Moving On, Beautiful, Artist

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• Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

  David J. Schwartz

  College, Thinking, People

  David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.84, Random House

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• There isno triumph or glory in the world that's worth an inch of human skin.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Skins, Triumph, World

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• On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

  Ryan White

  Mother, Doctors, Two

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• Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.

  Bhagat Singh

  Crush, Dream, Perseverance

  Bhagat Singh (1986). “Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh”

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• Life is not confined to a four inch screen.

  Jose A. Teixeira

  Four, Life Is, Confined

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• I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.

  Bonnie Langford

  Half, Weight, Tiny

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