Homer
Poet
"Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches."
Inches quotes
Inches
98 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jim Thompson
Author
"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."
Anushka Sharma
Actress, Producer
"If I am anorexic, Id be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground."
Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead."
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"Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!"
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"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
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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."
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"I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects."
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"Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me."
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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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"I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure."
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"Can I ask you something personal?” Six inches but I tell everyone eight."
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"Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact."
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"How can you measure acting in inches?"
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"To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch."
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"By the mile it's a trial, but by the inch it's a cinch."
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"I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love."
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"It is important not to show too many inches at once."
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"I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar."
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"I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God."
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"There’s an us?” “As far as I’m concerned…” He leaned forward, his mouth inches from mine, and my pulse spiked. “There’s nothing but us."
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"I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world."
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"We shall progress inch by inch."
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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.'"
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