All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
In 1938... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to… — Hans Hofmann 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
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
Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop -… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a… — Eduardo C. Corral Copy Share Image
You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
[Economy] is flat on the floor, and the paramedics have arrived. And they shouldn't argue about whether they put the resuscitation equipment… — Warren Buffett 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