“ A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. ”
- Vince Poscente- Copy
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“ Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know… ”
- Bill Bryson- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Men whistle at you in the street and boys fantasize about you - not my kind of blondes, only those with a 40-inch chest. ”
- Kristin Scott Thomas- Copy
- 1.3K
“ In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world. ”
- Vince Poscente- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out. ”
- Ken Norton- Copy
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“ Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. ”
- King Hussein I- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches. ”
- W. I. E. Gates- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice… I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. ”
- William Lloyd Garrison- Copy
- 2.7K
“ You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water — an inch deep and then the mud. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train - Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? ”
- J. Paul Getty- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say. ”
- Ken Burns- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Camille came inland about a mile and a half. Katrina's awesome strength moved inland for several miles and hit several communities up to Jackson. ”
- Pete Johnson- Copy
- 3.5K
“ But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 795
“ Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas. ”
- Orville Wright- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. ”
- Brooks Robinson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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
- 3.4K
“ I had to find a new twist. I wanted a balloon 60 inches in diameter, which is my height, made of a translucent or transparent material. ”
- Sally Rand- Copy
- 641
“ Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile. ”
- Dean Krakel- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 3.5K
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