Inches Quotes - Page 8

• You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!

  Twiggy

  Fall, Two, Half

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• I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.

  Terry McMillan

  Mirrors, Long, Age

  Terry McMillan (2006). “Waiting to Exhale”, p.15, Penguin

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• I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up the arse!

  Anthony Foley

  Trying, Arses, Remember

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• The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

  Robert Breault

  Average, Long, Optimism

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• Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

  Dorothy Parker

  Marriage, Office, Magazines

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• We shall progress inch by inch.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1984, Manonmani Publishers

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• A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Light, Years

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• I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

  Ai Weiwei

  Strong, New York, Scary

  "Ai Weiwei: 'I Have to Speak for People Who Are Afraid'". Interview with Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.

  William Camden

  Missing, Ells

  William Camden, John Philipot, Thomas Moule, Mark Antony Lower (1870). “Remains Concerning Britain”, p.318, Ep Publishing Limited

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• I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

  Kris Carr

  Witty, Delicious

  Kris Carr, Sheila Buff (2011). “Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, And Live Like You Mean It!”, p.246, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I've been within an inch of my life.

  Gary Lutz

  Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books

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• Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way--insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. Saigon traffic is Vietnamese life, a continuous charade of posturing, bluffing, fast moves, tenacity and surrenders.

  Andrew X. Pham

  Party, Moving, Fighting

  Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.75, Macmillan

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• I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan.

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

  Kashmir, Pakistan, Behinds

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• It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch. I must hold his pain where it is. Mine does not matter. ... The punishment I inflict, his fatigue, and that he is up against something that he does not comprehend is everything.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Pain, Punishment, Play

  "Jim Harbaugh comfortable in chaos" by Seth Wickersham, www.espn.com. October 02, 2014.

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• Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.

  Michael Frayn

  Moving, Hands, Sky

  Michael Frayn (2013). “Constructions”, p.69, Faber & Faber

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• One inch of love is an inch of ashes.

  Li Shangyin

  Love Is, Ashes

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• If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we recede; and if we submit we will be trampled under foot. I hold concession or compromise to be fatal. If we concede an inch, concession would follow compromise, until our ranks would be so broken that effectual resistance would be impossible.

  John C. Calhoun

  Feet, Yield, Broken

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• Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 41: Sermons 2394-2445”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.

  Eboo Patel

  Dream, Buddhist, Jobs

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• An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Feet, Jade

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• Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking.

  Emily Henderson

  Hem, Curtains

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• When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between the ears.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Sex, Important, Ears

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• Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

  Rick Pitino

  Progress, Yards

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• My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.

  Jackie Evancho

  High Heels, Long, Giving

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• More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes.

  Henry Rollins

  Girl, Song, Eye

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