Inches Quotes - Page 3

• He is every other inch a gentleman.

  Rebecca West

  Women, Men, Gentleman

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

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• You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

  George MacDonald

  Water, Amusement, Mud

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.5294, e-artnow

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.

  Christie Brinkley

  Found

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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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• You have to understand. I am no one special. I am just a single girl. I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way. But I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist.

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Wall, Sky

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• When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Hate, Thinking, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged.

  Charles Darwin

  Feet, Land, Water

  Charles Darwin (1840). “Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Varoius Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy from 1832 to 1836 by Charles Darwin”, p.557

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• My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.

  Samuel Beckett

  Thinking, Danger, Prisoner

  Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.101, Grove Press

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• I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. ... I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD.

  John Paul Stevens

  Writing, Thinking, Justice

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• The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.

  Neil Armstrong

  Science, Moon, Toes

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• Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Betrayal, Pain, Lying

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• Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Morning, Wrinkles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.

  Dave Winer

  Fighting, Winning, Curves

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• A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Marriage, Husband, Looks

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby

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• We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'
  Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts... Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at the end of the day -- if you live long enough -- most people get what they deserve.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Discipline, Long

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• I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

  David Crosby

  Fear

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• Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

  Louis L'Amour

  Victory, Miles

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• The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Lotuses

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• I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the US.

  Leslie Moonves

  Country, Thinking, Years

  "Cbs Chief Isn't Worried About Youtube Or Google — 'as Long As We Get Paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.

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• We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

  Leslie Moonves

  Football, Thinking, Games

  "CBS Chief isn't worried about Youtube or Google — 'as long as we get paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.

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