Inches Quotes - Page 7

I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world.

Texas Guinan

New York, Squares, World

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Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I'll rub a little jalapeno up my nose, get it runnin', and if I need to load the ball up I just... (wipes his nose)

Eddie Harris

Real, Curves, Two

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Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.

Albert Pinkham Ryder

Art, Eye, Air

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I sense
a thousand strands of sorrow are sewn
into an inch of my spirit.

Li Qingzhao

Sorrow, Spirit, Thousand

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Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot.

Laozi

Warrior, Feet, Taoism

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Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;
If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -
A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.
Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe!

Ikkyu

Beautiful, Strong, Night

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When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

Eric Ludy

Squares, Encounters, Boat

Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “When God Writes Your Love Story (Expanded Edition): The Ultimate Guide to Guy/Girl Relationships”, p.33, Multnomah

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And here's Zivojinovic, six foot six inches tall and fourteen pounds ten ounces.

Dan Maskell

Feet, Tennis, Six

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All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

L. Ron Hubbard

Philosophy, Trying, Teeth

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Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

Space, Miracle, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.256, NYU Press

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Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

George Ellery Hale

Fall, Squares, Rays

George Ellery Hale (1931). “Signals from the Stars”

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She's wearin' heels, boy, but she's five foot seven, you got five inches and at least a hundred pounds on her," Max replied and I figured he was being a might bit generous with the weight but I wasn't going to correct him, mostly because he wasn't done talking. "And, lastly, she's a woman. You don't ever strike a woman in anger.

Kristen Ashley

Boys, Talking, Feet

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Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.

Dave Barry

Funny, Communication, Humor

Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.127, Crown Archetype

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Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

John Wayne

Funny, Hate, Humor

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The whole earth, then, belongs to Jesus. It belongs to him by right of creation, by right of redemption and by right of future inheritance - as Paul affirms in the magnificent cosmic declaration of Colossians 1:15-20. So wherever we go in his name, we are walking on his property. There is not an inch of the planet that does not belong to Christ. Mission then is an authorized activity carried out by tenants on the instructions of the owner of the property.

Christopher J. H. Wright

Jesus, Names, Doe

Christopher J. H. Wright (2013). “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative”, p.403, InterVarsity Press

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Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers of his daughter, a wrinkle at the edge of his eyes behind his spectacles.

Michael Ondaatje

Daughter, Eye, Hands

Michael Ondaatje (1996). “The English Patient: A Novel”, Random House Inglaterra

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On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Math, Science, Air

Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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By the mile it's a trial, but by the inch it's a cinch.

Zig Ziglar

Trials, Miles

Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.182, Pelican Publishing

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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

William Butler Yeats

Heaven, Tragedy, Scene

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

Walt Whitman

Dark, Men, Squares

Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.96, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

Christian Louboutin

Goddess, Feels, Five

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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

Laozi

Nature, Moving, Enlightenment

Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, "Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can." If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

Michael Keaton

Sports, Kids, Guy

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

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I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's actually average. Everything about me is average. Everything's normal, in the books. It's the things inside me that make me not average.

Madonna Ciccone

Book, Average, Feet

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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.

Mel Brooks

Two, Wife, Security

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