Inch Quotes

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. (John Steinbeck)
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. View quote
Bill Watterson
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it. View quote
Henry George
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
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' View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. View quote
J.R. Ward
I recommend [the students] that you should work actively at the Hermitage and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch. View quote
Kazimir Malevich
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. View quote
King Hussein
I loved New York-every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong-visually and intellectually. It was like a monster. View quote
Ai Weiwei
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no. View quote
Martial
It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space. (Hans Hofmann)
Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch. View quote
Guillermo del Toro
He is every other inch a gentleman. View quote
Rebecca West
I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide. View quote
Larry David
America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties. View quote
Dennis Kucinich
An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought. View quote
Jack Vance
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. View quote
Samuel Beckett
If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman. View quote
Alex Ferguson
When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow? View quote
George Steiner
My grandfather always says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch. View quote
Jhumpa Lahiri
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. (Walt Whitman)
We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone. View quote
Joseph Stalin
The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves. View quote
Quentin Crisp
But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them. View quote
Martin Luther
For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell. View quote
John Heywood