Centimeter Quotes

#1. Every cubic centimeter of space, and every second that passes, is the result of this dancing foam of extremely small quanta.

Carlo Rovelli

#2. This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.

Mahbod Seraji

#3. The universe expanded by a factor of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in .00000000000000000000000000000000001 second. It was as if a coin 1 centimeter in diameter suddenly blew up to ten million times the width of the Milky Way.

Stephen Hawking

#4. Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler.

Janet Skeslien Charles

#5. A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

Paul Gauguin

#6. One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

Aldous Huxley

#7. I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people, bringing our brains, shielded in centimeter-thick skulls, into communion. A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

Paul Kalanithi

#8. She held out her hands, palms up, the white fingers lightly spread, and with a barely audible click, ten double-edged, four-centimeter scalpel blades slid from their housings beneath the burgundy nails.
She smiled. The blades slowly withdrew.

William Gibson

#9. You start slow. You find the subject's limits and get him to spend some time there. He gets used to it. Before long, the limits have moved. You never take him more than a centimeter beyond. You make it feel it's his choice.

Barry Eisler

#10. With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#11. A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

David Eagleman

#12. Letting go is a hard, hard thing. Some days, it seems impossible. Stubbornness sets in, heels dig firmly into the dirt below us, and fingers refuse to uncurl from something so precious to one's heart even if by a centimeter. Other days, though, it's a fervent wish.

Heather Lyons

#13. Strike registered the pronounced asymmetry of his pale blue eyes, one of which was a good centimeter higher than the other. It gave him an oddly vulnerable look, as though he had been finished in a hurry.

Robert Galbraith

#14. Think about a moment, a little centimeter of time you'd happily exist in forever, if time could be laid out along the spine of a ruler. Maybe it haunts you in that blue inch of half consciousness just before you're fully awake.

Kate Ellison

#15. In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

Katherine Dunham

#16. I only inched the tip in, but dammit to fucking hell if you milking the head of my cock doesn't have me wanting to blow my load. Do not fucking move your tight pussy one tenth of a centimeter until I can stop myself. Fuck!

Charisse Spiers

#17. A worker bee is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load heavier than herself.

Sue Monk Kidd

#18. He looked down into Lindsay's face, and her eyes were bright once more, her cheeks flushed....
"I thought you were after the fudge." Lindsay didn't move one centimeter toward the kitchen, didn't stir from his arms.
"I found something sweeter.

Sierra Donovan

#19. mama taught me waste not want not. i try not to waste but i'll be damned if i don't want.

Amy Leigh Cutler

#20. It's wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.

Dallin H. Oaks

#21. Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.

Spike Jonze

#22. Case gradually became aware of the music that pulsed constantly through the cluster. It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop;

William Gibson

#23. I have a hard time telling the difference between an old memory and a recent one.

Jennifer Rush

#24. I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.

Miguel De Cervantes

#25. You're absolutely delicious when you're angry." "Too bad my taste is poisonous for your palate.

Tahereh Mafi

#26. Stop thinking in terms of a year; instead focus on shorter time frames.

Brian P. Moran

#27. A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#28. Mother hold you. May you pass through the gates; may you smell that immortal land of milk and honey. Fear no evil. Feel no pain. May you enter enternity.

Sarah J. Maas

#29. The more we love the more we lose. The more we lose the more we learn. The more we learn the more we love. It comes full circle. Life is the school, love is the lesson. We cannot lose.

Kate McGahan