“For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.”

“I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men.”

“Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.”

“Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.”

“You can’t tuck your hair back the way you would, you can’t wipe away tears the way you would, because you’ve got nails that are an inch long. All your mannerisms change easily, when you have inch-long acrylic nails.”

“Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.”

“The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.”

“Susie got your number
And Susie ain't your friend
Look who took you under
With seven inches in
Blood is on the dance floor
Blood is on the knife
Susie's got your number
And Susie says it's right.”

“You nodded off in my arms watching tv
I won’t move you an inch
Even though my arm’s asleep.”

“We must use every inch of our blood to take back every inch of our land, you ten thousand youths and soldiers.”