Quotes of Millimeter - somelinesforyou

“ Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. ”

- George Orwell

“ The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the 9-millimeter bullet. ”

- Dave Barry

“ America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation… ”

- Thomas McGuane
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