Quotes about inch
A collection of quotes on the topic of inch, doing, likeness, making.
Quotes about inch

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Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Wind Book
Context: Some other schools have a liking for extra-long swords. From the point of view of my strategy these must be seen as weak schools. This is because they do not appreciate the principle of cutting the enemy by any means. Their preference is for the extra-long sword and, relying on the virtue of its length, they think to defeat the enemy from a distance.
In this world it is said, "One inch gives the hand advantage", but these are the idle words of one who does not know strategy. It shows the inferior strategy of a weak spirit that men should be dependant on the length of their sword, fighting from a distance without the benefit of strategy.

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

“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!”

In jail, Cross-Country Kline to Dove Linkhorn.
Source: A Walk on the Wild Side (1956)
Context: But blow wise to this, buddy, blow wise to this: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. Never let nobody talk you into shaking another man's jolt. And never you cop another man's plea. I've tried 'em all and I know. They don't work. / Life is hard by the yard, son. But you don't have to do it by the yard. By the inch it's a cinch. And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

Self-degradation

Mojo magazine (December 2009), p. 40.

Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 126

March 23, 1998, Janeane Garofalo interviewing Eddie Vedder for CMJ New Music Report at Brendan's, on the Lower East Side.

TV interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cReCQE8B5nY after 90-day moratorium (March 1964)

Russian: Чужой земли мы не хотим ни пяди, но и своей вершка ни отдадим.
Political Report of the C.C. to XVI Party Congress (29 June 1930) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/SC30.html
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews

“A stroke with the edges, though made with ever so much force, seldom kills, as the vital parts of the body are defended both by the bones and armor; on the contrary a stab, though it penetrates but two inches, is generally fatal.”
Caesa enim, quouis impetu ueniat, non frequenter interficit, cum et armis uitalia defendantur et ossibus; at contra puncta duas uncias adacta mortalis est.
Book 1
De Re Militari (also Epitoma Rei Militaris), Book I, "The Selection and Training of New Levies"

2019, European Economic and Social Committee (February 2019)

Source: 1850s, Autobiographical Sketch Written for Jesse W. Fell (1859)

Source: As quoted from his Oscar acceptance speech, cited in many media even year later, e.g. in "Lost in translation? The one-inch truth about Netflix’s subtitle problem" in The Guardian (14 October 2021) https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/14/squid-game-netflix-translations-subtitle-problem

“And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
Variant: These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.
Source: Lady Midnight

“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

“When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.”
Source: The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.”
Source: Reflected in You
Source: Kitchen

"To the Public", No. 1 (1 January 1831) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2928t.html
The Liberator (1831 - 1866)
Context: I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Anita's musings on knives; unidentified edition, pp. 304-305
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)
Context: I stepped out of the car on the rat king's arm, like a trophy wife--except for the wrist sheaths and the two folding knives hidden in my clothing. Somehow I think trophy wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But, Hey, I haven't met a trophy wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

“Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.”
Conversation with Whitman (16 May 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/1/med.00001.49.html by Horace Traubel, Vol. I <!-- p. 166 -->
Context: There was a kind of labor agitator here today—a socialist, or something like that: young, a rather beautiful boy — full of enthusiasms: the finest type of the man in earnest about himself and about life. I was sorry to see him come: I am somehow afraid of agitators, though I believe in agitation: but I was more sorry to see him go than come. Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated. … Cheer! cheer! Is there anything better in this world anywhere than cheer — just cheer? Any religion better? — any art? Just cheer!

Source: Men, Women And Dogs
Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.”
Source: The Long Goodbye
Source: Lover Awakened
Source: Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

“Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.”
Source: Norwegian Wood

Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 44
Source: Waking Hours: Book 1 in East Salem Trilogy with Pete Nelson (Thomas Nelson), p. 140

Quote from Gainsborough's letter to his friend William Jackson of Exeter, from Bath, 11 May 1768; as cited in Thomas Gainsborough, by William T, Whitley https://ia800204.us.archive.org/6/items/thomasgainsborou00whitrich/thomasgainsborou00whitrich.pdf; New York, Charles Scribner's Sons – London, Smith, Elder & Co, Sept. 1915, p. 383 (Appendix A - Letter VI)
1755 - 1769

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 83.

Dreams http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/jjdrm10.txt

“The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed.”
Speech at the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society annual meeting, New York City (May 1853)
1850s

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

On pregnancy and childbirth
Essay 2, p. 7-8
Naked Beneath My Clothes (1992)

Speech in the U.S. Senate https://web.archive.org/web/20070123074414/http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.667/pub_detail.asp (19 February 1847)
1840s

Source: Argumentation and debating, 1908, p. 24 ; as cited in: Branham (2013, p. 38)
as quoted by [John Dunnicliff and Nancy Peck Young, Ralph B. Peck, Educator and Engineer - The Essence of the Man, BiTech Publishers Ltd, Vancouver, 2007, 0-921095-63-5, 114]