#inch

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cell #chamber #cushioned #difference #inch

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bill #character #every #feet #height

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. ↗

— Larry Bird

#final #give #inch #push #sounds

My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#after #beautiful #because #clean #find

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. ↗

— George Eliot

#easily #glory #killing #life #mortals

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

— Robert Brault

#case #dead #eraser #inches #just

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter! ↗

— George Washington Cable

#craft #cross #curious #daughter #herself

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it. ↗

— Jane Campion

#absolutely #anybody #arrested #art #art school

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

#baseball #during #game #inches #insignificant

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me. ↗

— Stephen Collins

#beauty #count #do the right thing #him #inspires