Inches Quotes - Page 27

• This is the one thing I hope: that she never stopped. I hope when her body couldn't run any farther she left it behind like everything else that tried to hold her down, she floored the pedal and she went like wildfire, streamed down night freeways with both hands off the wheel and her head back screaming to the sky like a lynx, white lines and green lights whipping away into the dark, her tires inches off the ground and freedom crashing up her spine.

  Tana French

  Running, Dark, Night

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• You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Running, Pain, Real

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf

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• Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hands, Arms, Twelve

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• Those lips had curved into a knowing half smile that did funny things to her insides. And like a match tossed to gasoline, her body sparked alive and flames licked every inch of her.

  J. Lynn

  Flames, Funny Things, Knowing

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• Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hurt, Lying, Details

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Three: 5 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Numbers, Heat

  Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.195, Penguin

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• Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

  Paolo Giordano

  Years, Two, Silence

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• It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.

  Hans Hofmann

  Space, Would Be, Able

  "Can Painting be Taught" by Dorothy Seckler, Art News, No. 50, p. 64, March 1951.

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• If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Hug, Heat

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• Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

  John Muir

  Men, Squares, Flesh

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Great West Books

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• I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.

  Sylvia Day

  Wall, Two, Feet

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.279, Penguin

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• The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

  James Russell Lowell

  Squares, Atmosphere, Sixteen

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• Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.

  Steve Kroft

  Eight, Bridges, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

  Julia Child

  War, Patriotic, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.

  Erin McCarthy

  Love, Mean, Hair

  Erin McCarthy (2013). “True”, p.117, Penguin

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• When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

  Aaron Yoo

  New York, People, Subway

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• Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too.

  Nick Cave

  Love You, Dark, Hair

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• For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Tired, Light, Land

  "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

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• It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. So I need to run, and as my lungs burn and my back rebels with that stabbing knife feeling and my legs muscles harden and the half inch of loose skin around my waist jiggles, I feel as though my penance for the day is being done and that maybe God will be pleased enough to lend me some help, which I think is why He has been showing me interesting clouds for the past week.

  Matthew Quick

  Running, Hurt, Pain

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.

  Markus Zusak

  Enemy

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• How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Falling In Love, Three, Worms

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• Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.

  Charles Kingsley

  Eye, Two, Curves

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers”, p.405

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• Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Eye, Thinking, Principles

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4472, Delphi Classics

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• How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!

  Mae West

  Boys, Feet, Nine

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• to know a piece of grass, you’ve got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that’s why I remember every detail of that night, every inch of ground we covered, as I followed Zach to the place that had made him, seeing them both with fresh eyes.

  Ally Carter

  Eye, Night, Details

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