Top 100 Quotes About Inches
#1. Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts.
Elena Avila
#2. You know, my poor grandmother once told me that the way to a man's heart was through his stomach. Life has taught me that it's actually a few inches lower.
Jenifer Mohammed
#3. The two-inch blade can penetrate four inches into such parts of the body, the four-inch blade eight inches, etc. Having
Massad Ayoob
#4. Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.
Vince Poscente
#5. There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.
Bobby Bowden
#6. If you lose a couple of inches off your stomach, your business down there will look a lot longer.
Jack LaLanne
#7. It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death.
Scott Kelly
#8. It was the kind of smile that no one further than ten inches from her face would perceive. Her expression was so lightly cast to my eyes that had it been a snowflake on my lashes it would have melted away with an accidental blink.
Zach Lichtmann
#9. Well, the way you'd been, old lady
I could see the fear in your windows
Under your furry crawling brow
A silver bow rings up in inches
You were afraid you'd be the devil's red wife
But it's alright, God dug your dance
And would have you young and in his harum
Don Van Vliet
#10. The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.
Joaquin Sorolla
#11. Aingeal, there is only one thing on my body that's ten inches long, and if you'll recall, the scar is no' it.
Kresley Cole
#13. Even though two decades and several years had gone by since [she] first decided to be a fairy, even though Lizabeth Kane now stood five feet six inches tall in her stocking feet, even though she was thirty two years old - she still had aspirations of growing up to be a fairy.
Janet Evanovich
#14. Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
Lauryn Hill
#15. Nothing less than seven inches, that's my motto. - Isabelle Lightwood
Cassandra Clare
#16. Someone intruding within 18 inches without consent is regarded as threatening or uncomfortable behavior.
Lionel Rose
#17. Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds.
Bruce H. Jackson
#18. Why would I want four or five more inches? I use my speed.
Martin St. Louis
#19. I've always wanted to look different. I always think I've got this terrible figure. I'd like to be 3 inches taller.
Nicholas Haslam
#20. Well?" Shylin fell into step beside him as Sibley came out into the passage. "How long?" "Would you believe eight inches?" "No." "As big as a baby's arm?" "Sib." "Chief says it'll be done when it's done.
Tanya Huff
#21. A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest.
Royce Gracie
#22. You would use your body to get what you want?"
"In a heartbeat."
He was hurt. I could feel it echo through him. He stepped closer again, leveled his face inches from mine, and whispered in the softest of voices, "Whore.
Darynda Jones
#23. I punched the glass, enraged. So close, yet so far. We were just a few inches from getting out of there. We could see the way out ... and we were still trapped. Damn it to hell!
Manel Loureiro
#24. Leigh [Bowery ] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.
Boy George
#25. I missed you, she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing.
Thomm Quackenbush
#26. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things.
Ian McEwan
#27. Well, what do you want me to do? Head butt my way through a few inches of steel?!" she snarled.
"Well, that would certainly earn you a cookie!
S.L.J. Shortt
#28. I lay on my stomach, reached down and poked him. He rolled up. Then, feeling safe, I suppose, he slowly unrolled. He travelled a few inches in his hundred legs and I touched him again. He rolled up. Feeling sleepy, I decided to end things. My hand was going down on him when Jem spoke.
Harper Lee
#29. The weather outside certainly was frightful on Jan. 23, 1940, when 8.3 inches fell on the city, the most in Atlanta history, according to the National Weather Service.
Anonymous
#30. I've been drinking, all right? Your skin was three inches from my face, and you're beautiful, and you smell fucking awesome when you sweat. I kissed you! I'm sorry! Get over yourself!
Jamie McGuire
#31. Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
Dorothy Parker
#32. He stops rocking and looks into my eyes. We're inches apart and I'm mesmerized by the tiny flecks of indigo in his blue eyes. A girl could drown in those eyes. And it wouldn't be the worst way to go.
Lisa Daily
#33. She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder and stopped there. It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain. It was a miracle I was alive.
Malala Yousafzai
#34. I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.
Kelly Olynyk
#35. There's an us?"
"As far as I'm concerned ... " He leaned forward, his mouth inches from mine, and my pulse spiked. "There's nothing but us.
Rachel Vincent
#36. Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I'll rub a little jalapeno up my nose, get it runnin', and if I need to load the ball up I just ... (wipes his nose)
Eddie Harris
#37. When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.
Merle Haggard
#38. Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
Lalla Ward
#39. You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Stephen Fry
#40. And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.
Margaret Weis
#41. Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military moustache, air of dignity immense!
Agatha Christie
#42. I am aware of how little space there is between us
six inches at most. That space feels charged with electricity. I feel like it should be smaller.
Veronica Roth
#43. If I am anorexic, I'd be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.
Anushka Sharma
#44. Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.
M.C. Beaton
#45. I had a guy come up to me once in the gym when I'm training arms and tell me that I should do curls this way. I looked at his arms and they were about fifteen inches. That would be like me walking up to Tom Platz and telling him how to squat!
Lee Priest
#46. The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.
Joseph Heller
#47. The next great First Amendment battleground is just six inches high. It is a license plate bearing the Confederate flag.
Anonymous
#48. When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.
Tim McCarver
#49. I often find that when a ruthless editor forces me to trim an article to fit into a certain number of column-inches, the quality of my prose improves as if by magic. Brevity is the soul of wit, and of many other virtues in writing.
Steven Pinker
#50. He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine inches deep into the beams of our minds.
Chigozie Obioma
#51. You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?
Joseph Heller
#52. Can I ask you something personal?
Six inches but I tell everyone eight.
John Barnes
#53. When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days, we spend our lives staring at screens twelve inches in front of us.
Maria Semple
#54. Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair ...
J.K. Rowling
#55. And a man who is six feet three in height has six feet and three inches of evil to do battle with, if he has not six feet three of strength and honesty to fight for him.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#56. One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard. Which
Jennifer Niven
#57. Janvier was six feet three inches of pure indulgent sex. He wasn't even trying to project that at this instant - his sexual attractiveness was innate, created by his confidence, the lithe strength of his body, the lazy smile that said he knew every sin and had invented a few new ones.
Nalini Singh
#58. When you get to the end of a TV series, you feel totally out of sorts as an actor. You feel unfit; your voice box has collapsed on you because you've spent all day muttering into a microphone that's two inches from your head, and you feel desperate to spread your wings and do a bit of real thesping.
Kevin Whately
#59. To accommodate her hats, the limousine roof was raised five inches over her passenger seat.
Estella M. Chung
#60. My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.
Jamie Wyeth
#61. Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.
Warren Spahn
#62. Bestigui, who was five feet six inches at the most, had pushed his way out from behind his desk now; as unafraid of the enormous Strike as a pit bull whose yard has been invaded by a Rottweiler.
Robert Galbraith
#63. Today's media zoom their cameras in on and dedicate endless column inches to wars, disasters, famines, scandals, tragedies, and every form of evil. Things beautiful, wholesome and good, however, are less photogenic, so the works of God and His servants are rarely noticed.
Jason Mandryk
#64. They were intimidating, big, and didn't appear to trust me. I wondered if I seemed dangerous to them, all five feet six inches of me. I glanced down at my skimpy white shorts and purple tank top and wondered if they considered the fact it would be impossible to hide weapons in this outfit.
Abbi Glines
#65. Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?
Jodi Picoult
#66. Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.
Jeremy Irons
#67. Goodness gracious, no," Angie said, horrified. "Is that four inches? Girl, you're going to tower over him as it is. No need emphasizing the flaws.
Jessica Clare
#68. Anna mews next to me like a baby kitten and snuggles closer, her knee rubbing my thigh. And, oh, bugger me ... her hand lands on my lower stomach. Just a few inches south, and I would be a happy man.
Wendy Higgins
#69. The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.
Bernard DeVoto
#70. I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too ... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
Olivia Williams
#71. Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.
Joe Hart
#72. I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way. But
Lauren Oliver
#73. Well, the cat is flourishing and gets more spoiled and more beautiful every day. His whiskers measure, from tip to tip, including his mouth and nose, of course, ten inches, pure white whale bone.
Elizabeth Bishop
#74. I planted a tree. You'd think my neighbors would be happy for the shade it would provide them, but no, they said I planted it too close to their house. Since when is six inches too close?
Jarod Kintz
#75. From Out of the Darkness (book 2):
Zoe met Eric's eyes. Even in her platforms she was still a few inches shorter than he was. "And what do you do?"
His mouth quirked. "I set people on fire.
Jaime Rush
#76. [When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.
Carol Mann
#77. He had that extra four or five inches of neck which disqualifies a man for high honors in the beauty competition
P.G. Wodehouse
#78. I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.
Bear Bryant
#79. You can stay out here and compare inches for the entire night, but I'm going inside.
Ilona Andrews
#80. The first horse called Eohippus emerged 60 million years ago. It stood 14 inches high and weighed 12 pounds.
Quiz Bug
#81. If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.
Hartley Coleridge
#82. How can you measure acting in inches?!?
James Dean
#83. Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?
John Muir
#84. I lean against Brad's shoulder and he softly kisses my hair. Bringing my hand to his chest, I feel the rapid beat of his heart.
He inches closer and whispers, Do you feel that? That's what you do to me.
Beth Michele
#85. I stare up the stars, intensely aware of his body a few inches from mine. If this isn't romance, I don't know what is.
Candace Bushnell
#86. There's only about about 6 to 8 inches between an open book and a human being's heart. A lot can happen in those 7 inches. Perspectives, fresh perspectives occur and minds expand, and I love fiction and I feel like it's a possibility for transformation.
Aline Ohanesian
#87. I'm good. It's just a little hot and crowded in there." Like six feet, two inches of solid, gorgeous, beautiful man hot and crowded. I keep that to myself, though.
Melissa Collins
#88. He also had a device that looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million "pages" could be summoned at a moment's notice.
Douglas Adams
#89. Gundhrold's head lowered until his massive beak was only inches away from Amos's nose. "I am a son of the desert. This was once my home - the home of all my kind. I know every crag, every slope, every crick and hollow-"
Amos rolled his eyes. "Every blatherin' speck o' sand?
Gillian Bronte Adams
#90. Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#91. I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.
Paul Pierce
#92. Olly's glowing; if he was six inches tall and fluffy, Toys R Us would ship him by the thousands.
David Mitchell
#93. It was a strange way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years!
Emily Bronte
#94. Lacey?" He bowed his head until his face was inches from mine. His smile was still in place, and as his eyes swept over my face, it widened. "Uh-oh. Did you break?
Violet Cross
#95. His hand had been resting two inches above my shorts. Which is about five inches above my vagina. So... yeah, he was basically touching my vagina.
R.S. Grey
#96. Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
Veronica Roth
#97. I've lost 12 inches in three weeks. Every time I go for the costume fitting each week, it's smaller and smaller. I'm feeling great. I'm putting in the work. I'm getting a lot of sleep. Everything is on the backburner right now. 'Dancing' is my priority.
Ricki Lake
#98. French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.
Alan Furst
#99. On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
Al McGuire
#100. When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
Alan Rickman
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