Johnny Simmons

I have a couple of friends who have gone pro in sports, and if you are off by an inch, it's an entire mindgame for the next week. That's how it works: like, your whole world is based around an inch. Being an actor, your whole world turns on an inch, too.

American Actor

Arthur Ashe

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

American Tennis Player

Darren Boyd

I love comedy with a passion, and I hope that shows in my work. I would never want to move an inch away from comedy. What I want to do is continue to grow and extend myself, so if anything, I'm adding things on.

English Actor

Eddie Redmayne

What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

Salman Rushdie

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

Indian Novelist

Monty Williams

It's just life. You have to be able to get up, face your flaws, and just, whatever it is, a step, an inch, you just got to keep moving forward.

American Coach

Christen Press

You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.

American Athlete

Steven Van Zandt

Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.

American Musician

Peter Morgan

People test movies within an inch of their life so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

British Writer

Henry George

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

American Economist

Imagine the width of a standard thumb; that's approximately one inch.

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An inch can denote a small, precise adjustment in position or dimension.

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The inch is used primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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The verb 'inch' implies a slow, often unnoticed, approach or movement.

Subtle Movement

Inching is often used to describe tense situations requiring caution.

Tense Situations

Using 'inch' can imply slow but deliberate progress towards a goal.

Progress Nuance

An inch can express a very narrow or slight failure to meet a goal.

Narrow Misses

It can be used to exaggerate accuracy or the lack thereof humorously.

Exaggerated Precision

An inch can indicate exerting effort or resisting pressure in extreme situations.

Intensity of Effort

 That's actually a really good question that I answer a lot of the time. We get a lot of questions about that at the zoo Elephants have big ears to help keep them cool. As you can imagine, an elephant skin is really thick, can be up to an inch and a half thick on the elbows and the knees. But behind the ears, it's only about a millimetre, millimetre and a half thick, And the ear is full of blood vessels.

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 These men are seven inches different in height, but because of the body types advantaged in their sports, they wear the same length pants. Seven inches difference in height, these men have the same length legs. Now in some cases, the search for bodies that could push athletic performance forward ended up introducing into the competitive world

Are athletes really...

 Your uniform is maintained to the inch. How diligently you followed those rules spoke volumes about the kind of Marine you were. Your rank said something about your history and the respect you had earned. In the civilian world there's no rank. Here you're just another body, and I felt like I constantly had to prove my worth all over again.

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 when you're standing up, you should be able to draw a straight line from a point just in front of your shoulders, to behind your hip, to the front of your knee, to a few inches in front of your ankle. This keeps your center of gravity directly over your base of support, which allows you to move efficiently

The benefits of good...

 largest millipede species in the world they can grow up to around 12 inches long and live between five to seven years in the wild and they have around three to four hundred legs with four per body segment and they don't breathe through lungs like you and I instead they have these tiny pore like

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 lot of things seemed good life seemed good relative to what I knew then of course but it still seemed good my life was maybe a mile wide but it was only an inch deep and before I knew it over ten years had gone by and I was still living

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 since they're loose there's going to be a good bust this is obviously thousands of rounds we're gonna be here awhile trying to sort it all out but just to give you an idea this tab is around I would say at least three inches deep

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 It measures the force of the bite of an animal. So, if I bite on this here it should register... about 120 pounds per square inch. To get the dragons to bite, we're going to need a little bit of encouragement

Largest Lizard on Earth...

 look at this few inches of snow and the old ruddy jungle comes to a standstill it's not even cold yesterday they said it was too cold to snow what does that even mean they must have known it was coming

A Snow Tiger Complaining...

 traveling with her subjects is the queen at two inches long she's the largest ant in the world and she's a new queen when her mother's

Inch

A unit of measurement equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.

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Move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

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A very small amount or distance.

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