Inches Quotes - Page 2

• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  Lalla Ward

  Fog, Snow, Friendly

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

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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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• I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

  Rick Springfield

  Nails, Tools, Stuff

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• Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Play, Giving

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter "On Critics", 1977.

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• Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Little Things

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• Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!

  Lars Ulrich

  Integrity, Heart, Mean

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• Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

  John Bytheway

  Yards, Hard

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• I grew six inches in a year.

  Karlie Kloss

  Years, Six, Grew

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• Don't think about what you want, think about what the world needs, and strive to fill that gap. Success is a game of inches.

  Justine Musk

  Thinking, Games, Needs

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• The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

  Jane Austen

  Two, Ivory, Littles

  Letter to J. Edward Austen, 16 Dec. 1816

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• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Powerful, Writing

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• I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

  Tug McGraw

  Twelve, Ears, Elbows

  Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

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• On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

  Tom Lehrer

  Income, Three, Blind

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• Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Crystals, Abundance, Length

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• Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

  Bobby Jones

  Sports, Golf, Space

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• A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

  Wes Bentley

  Real, Reflection, Enough

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• Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

  Jeremy Irons

  Nice, Lines, Height

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

  King Hussein I

  Beauty, Country, Yesterday

  "The Arab World", Arab Information Center, p. 30, 1965.

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• Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

  Brooks Robinson

  Book, Years, Three

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• Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

  Barack Obama

  Calling, Sometimes, Midst

  "Obama: 'Fear' drives voters" by Carol E.Lee, www.politico.com. October 16, 2010.

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• I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

  Bobby Darin

  Fall, Shoes, Half

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

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• For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

  Charles Kuralt

  Old Habits, Expression, Together

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• I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

  Shelley Winters

  Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Weight Loss

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• A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Perseverance, Coffee, Cups

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