Inches Quotes - Page 29

• I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Trying, Walks

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler.

  Mae West

  Thinking, Guy, Poor

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• If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.

  Catherine the Great

  Gentleman, May, Venture

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• There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

  Bobby Bowden

  Nfl, Halos, Turns

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• All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.

  Louise Erdrich

  Believe, Cutting, Feet

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

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• if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Freedom, Fall, Fighting

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• Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler.

  J. A. Jance

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

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• What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beautiful princess, or subtracts a single inch from the stride of seven leagues?

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Summer, Princess

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

  Katha Pollitt

  Struggle, Progress

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• Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Time, Believe, Thinking

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• [When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.

  Carol Mann

  Sports, Feet, Size

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• Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used

  Terry-Thomas

  Talking, Teeth, Fancy

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• There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

  Kevin Kline

  Relaxation, Mind, Technique

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• If you lose a couple of inches off your stomach, your business down there will look a lot longer.

  Jack LaLanne

  Couple, Looks, Stomach

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• In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

  George Herbert

  Hundred, Contention

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.355

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• If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing.

  Bruce Campbell

  Blood, House, Buckets

  "Ash vs Evil Dead": Bruce Campbell Talks Blood, Sidekicks, and Hating Ash’s Car". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2015.

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• I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or a situation that sounds compelling - and then you just feel your way around until you find the edges of your story. It's like going into a dark room... you stumble around until you find the walls and then inch your way to the light switch.

  Dan Chaon

  Wall, Writing, Character

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts.

  Elena Avila

  Heart, Journey, Sixteen

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• When I was in Dutch and Italian football, a lot of people looked at Manchester United, and when they were asked who was the best player, a lot of them said Paul Scholes. Much of what he did looked simple, but actually it was quite hard. Invariably he controlled the ball instantly and passed it straight on, keeping the game moving. He made inch-perfect passes across the pitch; he saw the gaps and could play the ball through them. So it didn't surprise me that so many top-class international footballers recognized his quality.

  Edwin van der Sar

  Football, Moving, Simple

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• Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Relationship, Baby, Cutting

  Song: I'm On Fire, Album: Born In The U.S.A., 1984

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• Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.

  Og Mandino

  Law, Goal, Details

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.71, Bantam

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• I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

  Stacy Keibler

  Long, Legs, Features

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• On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

  Victoria Moran

  Two, Issues, Abortion

  "Abortion and Reverence for Life: Grappling with My Father’s ‘Other Job’" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.

  Elton John

  Insanity, Razors, Cold

  Song: Feed Me Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Rock Of The Westies

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