Inches Quotes - Page 18

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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That's inches away from being millimetre perfect.

Ted Lowe

Perfect, Olympic Games

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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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What's twelve inches long and hangs in front on ass, Mankind's tie.

Jerry Lawler

Funny, Wwe, Ties

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When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

Malcolm X

Believe, Knives, Two

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To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

Alan Watts

Ego, Life Is, Fallen

"Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety".

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I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.

Bob Ross

Believe, Practice, Two

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One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Francois Rabelais

Laughter, Grief, Men

Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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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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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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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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One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit, which we refer to as the "mounting" deficit, because every extra word helps when you have to produce a certain number of gravely concerned newsprint inches.

Dave Barry

Funny, Voice, Numbers

Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

Arnold Gingrich

Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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