Inches Quotes

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol

Write, Attention, Pay

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Brault

Long, Thought, Dead

They that die by famine die by inches.
Matthew Henry

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Louis L'Amour

Win, Victory, Won

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Stephen Fry

Yourself, Reason, Six

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
Alan Rickman

Two, Off, England

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
Charles Kuralt

Together, Old, While

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

Long, Same, Put

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters

Short, Overweight, Nine

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
Arthur Ashe

Care, Deep, Start

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
Tom Lehrer

Put, Away, Wanted

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

Snow, Friendly, Done

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.
Gregory Peck

School, High, Feet

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.
Bobby Darin

Around, Another, Shoes

I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.
Lee Trevino

Love, Good, Down

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
Bob Feller

Time, War, Sports

Baseball is a game of inches.
Branch Rickey

I grew six inches in a year.
Karlie Kloss

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
Ernie Harwell

Game, Baseball, Against

Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.
Lee Westwood

Down, Months, Eighteen

What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn't extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, 'Oh my God, I can't walk in that!' It was like, three inches - they look like kitten heels now.
Christian Louboutin

God, Saying, Remember

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!
Stacy Keibler

Best, Long, Legs

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
Ingrid Newkirk

Life, End, Secret

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

Nature, Car, Old

It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.
John Sexton

Beautiful, Moving, Trying

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.
Ryan White

Mother, Two, After

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

Good, Nice, End

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.
Steven Weber

Politics, Game, Become

Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.
William Henry Ashley

Two, Perfect, Three

I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.
Leslie Moonves

Change, Country, Playing

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