Inches Quotes

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.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

When he inches into me, I feel the pain, but I also feel the invisible chains around my wrists break and shatter.

Can I ask you something personal?” Six inches but I tell everyone eight.

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

For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.

I grew six inches in a year.

I sense a thousand strands of sorrow are sewn into an inch of my spirit.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.

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

And this is what you get for laughing at me." He pulled her up a few inches until his lips touched hers.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

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

How can you measure acting in inches?

I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

Why would I want four or five more inches? I use my speed.

Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.

I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.

Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.

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

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

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

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.

I'm 5 feet 10 inches, and whatever my whatever my weight is, that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel good, it doesn't matter.

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

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

By the mile it's a trial, but by the inch it's a cinch.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to build consensus and compromise.

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

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

It is important not to show too many inches at once.

I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.

Leigh [Bowery] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.

I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.

A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall.” “Its my motto,” said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. “Nothing less than seven inches.