The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence. — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football,… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
the kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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… — Ricki Lake Copy Share Image
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Payton grinned. “You must be Chase.” As she extended her hand in introduction, she took the opportunity to give him a more… — Julie James Copy Share Image
The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game.' I've not seen… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long, — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high! — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup. — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at… — Aaron Yoo Copy Share Image
A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't… — Buwei Yang Chao Copy Share Image
The best way to lose weight is to put the handle of the fridge two inches from the ground. — Dawn French Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
