Thousandth Of An Inch Quotes

#1. Turn around. I am there, one ten-thousandth of an inch outside your range of vision. I am always there. I am the faceless thing you cannot name, the nameless thing you cannot face.

Rick Yancey

#2. He is there; I feel him, one ten-thousandth of an inch outside my range of vision. I stalk him. He stalks me. The man who wrote these books is not the man who lives in them. That man is the form; Will Henry is the shadow. And now that shadow lives in me. And it lives in you.

Rick Yancey

#3. But after eating his one-thousandth sinner, Bob became prideful of his accomplishments, and that angered God."
"Why would that anger God?"
"This was the Old Testament. God got pissed off a lot. Didn't you ever read Job?

J.A. Konrath

#4. The value of the matter is not worth one one ten-thousandth the value of the form," said Drake.

Robert Shea

#5. When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

Apolo Ohno

#6. Did you see what we did?" Vine asked for the thousandth time. "That's what I'm talking about! Those hell hounds were nothing. When do I get to face a wraith?

Heather Burch

#7. If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Bao Dai

#8. Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,
trying to say-
for the thousandth time-
what's easier done than said.

Piet Hein

#9. Winter glanced over at Moon, for the nine thousandth time that day,

Tui T. Sutherland

#10. Ah, reader! I would the gods had made thee rhythmical, that thou mightest comprehend the thousandth part of my labours in the evasion of cacophony.

Thomas De Quincey

#11. Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.

Ben Horowitz

#12. Around the lab I heard that publicity was measured in an absolute unit, the "kan". That unit was too large for ordinary application and a practical unit one one-thousandth of the size served in its place, the "millikan".

Luis W. Alvarez

#13. There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth- of the books I'd probably love if I ever got to them.

Dave Barry

#15. Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

Isaac Stern

#16. I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#17. One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine can't see them there's no reason to doubt that the moons of Jupiter exist, and certainly no reason for calling the thousandth man a lunatic.

Agatha Christie

#18. Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.

Anna Akhmatova

#19. This is pretty hard on the Elders, is it not? If they could remember one thousandth part of that which they have heard, it would have sanctified them years and years ago; but it goes in at one ear and out at the other
it is like the weaver's shuttle passing through the web.

Brigham Young

#20. We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

Ellen Hopkins

#21. Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Augustus Hare

#22. One man in a thousand will stick closer than a brother, but the thousandth man will stand by your side, to the gallows foot and after.

Rudyard Kipling

#23. Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those schoolroom maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way.

Bill Bryson

#24. Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.

Arthur C. Clarke

#25. For the thousandth time, Adele Collier, don't open the closet door or you'll get crushed!

Kellyn Roth

#26. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

Alexander Pope

#27. When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.

Suzanne Farrell

#28. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

#29. Our very life depends on everything's
Recurring till we answer from within.
The thousandth time may prove the charm.

Robert Frost

#30. In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort. In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.

Werner Heisenberg

#31. I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.

Qin Shi Huang

#32. Experiments that measure readers' comprehension times to the thousandth of a second have shown that singular they causes little or no delay, but generic he slows them down a lot.

Steven Pinker

#33. For the thousandth time, Faith wondered why this appealed to her. She detested letting men walk all over her, letting them think they were supreme beings. But when Mr. Meisner did all these diabolical things to her, her body fired up and wanted more.

Cari Silverwood

#34. We spend so much time making up for things we failed to say, she mused. If only, she began
for the thousandth time, the images of those days beginning to flash behind her eyes like a slide
show she was powerless to stop

Nicholas Sparks