“I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.” ArtPrinciplesHairPleaseSellsSellingBreadth Author:Gustave Courbet
“If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.” IfsMenShouldFirstsLanguageBornPartyStepsDestinyHairShould HaveLawyerFirst StepsBreadth Book:The Story of My Life Source: The Story of My Life
“You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.” IfsMadeSaidFormHairPerfectionSignificantNoiseSubstanceJudgedFleetingBreadthMerging Author:Burk Uzzle
“I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.” ThinkingFeelsHardActorsSpeakLike YouHairRopeBreadth Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke.” BodyTogetherFormHairSkinsSmokeEngagedTouchedLinkedRopeBladesMomentumFieryBreadth Book:Eragon and Eldest Omnibus Source: Eragon and Eldest Omnibus
“There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.” WorldHumansLongHas BeensMemoriesHairHorrorDevilMadnessIntellectMeant To BeHideousBreadthSeething Author:Clark Ashton Smith