Measure Tape Quotes

#1. We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

Henry David Thoreau

#2. You can't measure manhood with a tape line around his biceps.

Billy Sunday

#3. She hadn't seen a doctor cry before, they usually don't, that makes it
harder.
- Anita

Nilesh Sakpal

#4. I'm very encouraged. This is progress. There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it. People are becoming much more enlightened.

Leslie Jordan

#5. The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Daley Thompson

#6. Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

Barack Obama

#7. I'm supposed to be here taking measurements, but I haven't even brought a measuring tape. And it's not the apartment I need to measure -- it's the size of my balls.

Sarina Bowen

#8. Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.

Gabe Paul

#9. You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

Jack LaLanne

#10. I've always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I'd kill myself if I was that fat ... I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big.

Elizabeth Hurley

#11. I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

Groucho Marx

#12. God never measures the mind ... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

Corrie Ten Boom

#13. You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

Cheryl Strayed

#14. In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

Aristotle.

#15. It is difficult to fill a broken vessel.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

Clare Boothe Luce

#17. Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.

Jack LaLanne

#18. It wasn't as if she was a silly, naive miss who knew nothing of the way of things
heaven knows, she had been to Boston!

Katie MacAlister

#19. He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that is. You see, Pop never used a tape measure. He didn't believe in it. He said he could just look at a man and tell hi.

Groucho Marx

#20. I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.

Walter Kirn

#21. American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.

Nikki Haley

#22. Am I lonelier now
Than when my sad imagination
Had him disappear?
Heart torn,
Loosing tiny droplets
Of sorrow
No tape can measure
No needle can mend.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#23. Thank you ... Apple, for adding a camera to the iPod Nano. Now it's just like the iPhone except it can't make calls. So basically, it's just like the iPhone.

Jimmy Fallon

#24. If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#25. To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

John C. Maxwell

#26. What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

Jack LaLanne

#27. The first entry into modeling doesn't build your confidence. They pull out the tape measure and pick you apart. I'm a curvy woman, so I was definitely told I was 'too curvy.'

Joelle Carter

#28. Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

John Hutton