Inches Quotes - Page 2

• Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

  Sam Shepard

  Scare Tactics, Democracy, May

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• The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

  Robert Breault

  Optimistic, Average, Long

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• Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Play, Giving

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter "On Critics", 1977.

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• I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

  Rick Springfield

  Nails, Tools, Stuff

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• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  Lalla Ward

  Fog, Snow, Friendly

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

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• Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Little Things

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• Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!

  Lars Ulrich

  Integrity, Heart, Mean

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• Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

  John Bytheway

  Yards, Hard

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• I grew six inches in a year.

  Karlie Kloss

  Years, Six, Grew

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• Don't think about what you want, think about what the world needs, and strive to fill that gap. Success is a game of inches.

  Justine Musk

  Thinking, Games, Needs

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• The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

  Jane Austen

  Two, Ivory, Littles

  Letter to J. Edward Austen, 16 Dec. 1816

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• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Powerful, Writing

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• I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

  Tug McGraw

  Twelve, Ears, Elbows

  Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

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• On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

  Tom Lehrer

  Income, Three, Blind

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• I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

  Shelley Winters

  Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Weight Loss

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• I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds.

  Richard Kiel

  Two, Feet, Guy

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• Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

  Trent Reznor

  Relationship, Goal, Nails

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• This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

  Holly Johnson

  Mean, Hype, Sound

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• For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

  Charles Kuralt

  Old Habits, Expression, Together

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• Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

  Buffalo Bill

  Character, Men, Feet

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.70, U of Nebraska Press

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• Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

  Bill Watterson

  Winning, Snow, Hobbes

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• Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

  Brooks Robinson

  Book, Years, Three

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• The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

  Norman McLaren

  Numbers, Quality, Elements

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• A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

  Wes Bentley

  Real, Reflection, Enough

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• Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Crystals, Abundance, Length

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