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Tag Name "Inch" (249)

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That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.
Lauren Oliver
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You've got forever and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.
Jim Thompson
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Let's hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.
Eric Andre
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Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
Laozi
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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.
William Butler Yeats
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Life by the yard is hard by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.
Thomas S. Monson
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It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!
Vince Staples
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He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.
Paul Auster
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[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.
Charley Reese
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I’m no more used to being without a weapon than you are. (Cassandra) She’s right about that. Her teddy bear is a six-inch retractable knife with a snub-nosed .38 Special. (Katra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
Bobby Jones
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All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.
Isaac Asimov
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.
Glen Duncan
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Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.
Mary Blakely
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Mile by mile, it's a trial yard by yard, it's hard but inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Gabrielle Giffords
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America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.
Dennis Kucinich
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The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.
Steve Jobs
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
Bill Watterson
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Ten decimal places of π are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places would give the circumference of the visible universe to a quantity imperceptible to the most powerful microscope.
Simon Newcomb
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You know you're getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.
John Mendoza
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Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
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The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.
Jay Maisel
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