Inches Quotes

• Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

  Henry Adams

  Travel, Taste, Carrie

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 12

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• When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

  Alan Rickman

  Two, England, Planes

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• There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my daughter!

  George Washington

  Daughter, Sunday, Night

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• They that die by famine die by inches.

  Matthew Henry

  Hunger, Famine, Dies

  An Exposition on the Old and New Testament Psalm 59 (1710)

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• How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

  Henry George

  Country, Men, Squares

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• I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Justice, Retreat, Excuse

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

  Stephen Fry

  Height, Six, Reason

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• When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

  Merle Haggard

  Summer, Wall, Winter

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  Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

  Bradley Whitford

  Dirty, Character, Naughty

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• A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Painter, Thousand

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• There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cells, Differences, Chamber

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• I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

  Arthur Ashe

  Art, Moving, Yards

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

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• We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Drawing, Matter, Size

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• What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

  Gregory Peck

  School, Gnarly, Feet

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• Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Mental Toughness

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

  C. S. Lewis

  Squares, Religion, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Inches make champions.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Adversity, Champion

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• To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Christmas, Gratitude, Dark

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Inches make a champion.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Sports, Champion

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• A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Squares, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

  Clinton D. McKinnon

  Inspirational, Funny, Fall

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• Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, Time, Winning

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• 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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• Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.

  Tori Spelling

  Mirrors, Littles, Six

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