Inches Quotes - Page 21

• Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

  Henry Rollins

  Gay, People, Personality

  5 Copy quote

• Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

  Steve Martin

  Squares, Doe, Done

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Heart, Men, Way

  18 Copy quote

• Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

  Darrel Ray

  Men, Years, Understanding

  11 Copy quote

• She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder and stopped there. It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain. It was a miracle I was alive.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Taken, Eye

  4 Copy quote

• The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

  Sebastian Coe

  Running, World, Nine

  23 Copy quote

• To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the investigator to do but go straight on, 'to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason;' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should it at times resemble a will-o'-the-wisp.

  William Crookes

  Knowledge, Science, Light

  "Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", No. 1506, Vol. 58, (p. 438), September 8, 1989.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Summer, Fall, Winter

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2014). “Crime and Punishment”, p.560, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

  Bill Veeck

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  12 Copy quote

• At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.

  Jesse L. Greenstein

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

  4 Copy quote

• Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

  Jennifer Pahlka

  Ocean, Government, Layers

  7 Copy quote

• Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.

  Robert Browning

  Science, Men, Research

  Robert Browning (1915). “The poetical works of Robert Browning”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space.

  Immanuel Kant

  God, Science, Space

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Change, God, Stars

  7 Copy quote

• Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

  Homer

  Death, Iliad, Dies

  18 Copy quote

• After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Real, Smart

  40 Copy quote

• The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Eight, Feet

  7 Copy quote

• The difference between a winner and a loser is, many times, a matter of inches. If you think you can do it, most of the time you'll do it.

  Nancy Lieberman

  Sports, Thinking, Differences

  11 Copy quote

• When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Dust, Play

  67 Copy quote

• I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it. In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire). When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.

  Akbar Ganji

  Islamic, Rights, Views

  13 Copy quote

• Your dreams will always be more important to you than anyone else, you can want something as much as you want but at the end of the day your mum doesn't care if your arms are 24 inches or not, but that doesn't mean you give up, chase your dreams.

  Kai Greene

  Dream, Giving Up, Mean

  34 Copy quote

• I was six foot one inch when I started fighting, but with all the uppercuts I'm up to six foot five inches.

  Chuck Wepner

  Funny, Fighting, Feet

  51 Copy quote

• And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

  James Russell Lowell

  Snow, Tree, Pearls

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.379

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Attention, Pay

  5 Copy quote

• But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Yield, Race

  Martin Luther (1848). “The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther”, p.352

  14 Copy quote

  Show source