Inch Quotes - page 6

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter! (George Washington Cable)
As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality. View quote
Grimes
Six feet three in her stocking feet, LWren Scott was every inch a great lady. View quote
Hamish Bowles
I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it. View quote
Jane Campion
I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men. View quote
Kim Harrison
Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all. View quote
Kim Harrison
When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace. View quote
Lennie James
A lot of actresses feel the pressure to constantly look good, to constantly show how well-toned every inch of their bodies are and how much they've been to the gym, not necessarily to do justice to the role they're in, but to point out to the producers out there, 'Hey, look what I've got - remember me for your next project.' View quote
Caroline Goodall
But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention. View quote
Daisy Berkowitz
Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out. View quote
Ken Norton
When you give the government an inch, they take a mile. (Matt Salmon)
Give the enemy an inch, he'll take a yard. View quote
Monica Crowley
The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes. View quote
Norman McLaren
I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails. View quote
Nat Wolff
If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that? View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one. View quote
Peter Morgan
A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct--Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he'd take over the world--my life, if I let him." ~Mercy. View quote
Patricia Briggs
Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject. View quote
Rachel Caine
There are many critics who think the megachurches thrive on people who enjoy dramatic Sunday services with fine music but don't wish to become very 'religious' on a day-to-day basis - that the megachurch appeal is a mile wide and an inch deep. View quote
Rodney Stark
When I first started on 'Medium,' they didn't like me growing my hair too long. But I was freaked out when the hairdresser cut off even an inch. View quote
Sofia Vassilieva
On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side. (Victoria Moran)
A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality. View quote
Wes Bentley
I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life-and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it-no shortcuts and no anesthesia. View quote
Michele Bardsley
I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure. View quote
Groucho Marx
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. View quote
Mel Brooks