Inches Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.

  Gilbert Adair

  New York, Space, Rude

  Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins

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• To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

  Washington Irving

  Remembrance, Age, Titles

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.115, Penguin

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• You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Body, Asana, Legs

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.63, Rodale

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• Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

  Timothy Keller

  Squares, Cities, Earth

  "Loving the City: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City".

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• The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

  Max Beerbohm

  Beauty, Distance, Eye

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.110, The Floating Press

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• As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.

  Richard Leakey

  Children, Unique, Parent

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• I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Football, Fun

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• Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of plants or birds. Let us hit this glass a blow in such a manner as but to crack it up. The sectors circumscribed by cracks following the first blow may here be understood to represent families. Continuing, we may crack the glass into genera, species and subspecies to the point of finally having the upper right hand corner a piece about 4 inches square representing a sub-species.

  Leon Croizat

  Science, Blow, Squares

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• On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

  Elton John

  Sadness, Rocks, Hands

  Song: Belfast, Album: Made In England, 1995

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• Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

  Louise Erdrich

  Nature, Cutting, Feet

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.214, Odyssey Editions

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• I've lost 12 inches in three weeks. Every time I go for the costume fitting each week, it's smaller and smaller. I'm feeling great. I'm putting in the work. I'm getting a lot of sleep. Everything is on the backburner right now. 'Dancing' is my priority.

  Ricki Lake

  Sleep, Dancing, Priorities

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• I don't drink, fight & womanise. I am not a wife beater. I don't do nude covers. I don't have a 12-inch long you know what ... I am quite boring.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Fighting, Long, Wife

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• Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

  Michael Azerrad

  Sound, Nails, Nine

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• I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

  Britt Ekland

  Today, Beginnings And Ends, Planning

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• Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.

  Tyler Florence

  Space, Mushrooms, Feet

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• There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

  Abraham Kuyper

  Jesus, Doe, Spheres

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• If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

  Harold Geneen

  Hate, Work, Trying

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• We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Nature, Garden, Eden

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• You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face.

  Armie Hammer

  Trying, Faces, Latex

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

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• I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.

  Julia Jones

  Real, Book, Nerd

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• You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Honesty, Gun

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1455, e-artnow

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• It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.

  Jewel

  Use, Maps

  Song: You're in Cleveland Today, Album: This Way

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