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• I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

  Meg Cabot

  Rip, Men, Shoes

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• Fang looked at the newest bird kid. Dylan was an inch or two taller than he was, and somewhat heavier built, though he still had the long, lean look of a human-avian hybrid-you couldn't make bricks fly.

  James Patterson

  Kids, Two, Long

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• Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all.

  Kim Harrison

  Men, Four

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• I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.

  Brooke Burke

  Tears, Calendars, Whole Life

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• Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

  Salman Rushdie

  Miserable, Persons

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• Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

  Adam Savage

  Light, Magic, Details

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• The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

  Martin Scorsese

  Artist, Sight, Matter

  "Tacita Dean: Film". Book by Tacita Dean, Unilever series vol. 12, 2011.

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• I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.

  Lee Trevino

  Swings, Play, Two

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• The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Adjectives, Bigger

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• I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

  Joss Whedon

  Teacher, School, Levels

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• Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Jobs, Heart, Men

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.2783, Penguin

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• A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Mushrooms, Two

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• So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.

  Wendell Berry

  Years, Practice, Two

  Wendell Berry, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”

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• My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.

  Alan Moore

  Mother, Integrity, Selfish

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• Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

  Dorothy Parker

  Numbers, Accepted, Vivacity

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.302, Penguin

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• Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Long, Psychology, Trying

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra

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• All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

  Isaac Asimov

  People, Earth, Flats

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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• A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.

  Robert Fulghum

  Long, Black, Twenties

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• The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

  Martin Amis

  Light, Years, Human Life

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• Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame....For the first time, a glint of humor touched Ramon Galverra's finely sculpted mouth and arrogant dark eyes.

  Judith McNaught

  Eye, Dark, Feet

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Tender Triumph”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Party, Showbiz

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2009.

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• Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Dirty, Cat

  "Hoarders : Stepping Out of Your TV Set Into Your Local Shelter" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2010.

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• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Two, Squares, Long

  "Microsoft's Former CTO Takes on Modernist Cuisine" by Mark McClusky, www.wired.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I did this Super-8 film at art school called Tissues, this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

  Jane Campion

  Art, Children, Father

  "New Again: Jane Campion". Interview with Katherine Dieckmann, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

  Sloane Crosley

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

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