Centimetre Quotes

#1. Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.

Timothy Garton Ash

#2. When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

Bill Bryson

#3. I swiftly discovered that there are few things in DIY (and possibly life) that can't be solved with a large mallet, a bag of ten-centimetre nails and some swearing.

Monty Halls

#4. To be sure, Wegener made mistakes. He asserted that Greenland is drifting west at about 1.6 kilometres a year, a clear nonsense. (Its more like a centimetre.)

Bill Bryson

#5. You are the most ludicrous excuse for a man I've ever known - but there isn't a centimetre of you that I don't think is perfect.

Lucy Robinson

#6. Just measured my thing. It has grown one centimetre. I might be needing it soon.

Sue Townsend

#7. Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.

Bjorn Lomborg

#8. ... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

Eoin Colfer

#9. One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments.

Aldous Huxley

#10. Keep in touch.
I suddenly realized how annoying that expression was. Like, Now it's your job to stay in contact with me. It said, I'm really just too lazy.
I started to write back, to keep in touch, but decided I'd be lazy as well.

Jennifer Castle

#11. What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones?

Michel Faber

#12. Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.

Bela Karolyi

#13. In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.

Lynne Truss

#14. We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Bertrand Russell