Quotes About Thick

am colored red and blue and yellow and every other hue of the rainbow. I am long and short, thick and thin, and I often rest coiled up. I can eat a hundred sheep in a row and still be hungry. What am I?

His chin looked as though a farsighted person had attempted to sew two thickly cut pieces of bacon together in a dark room.

The next week passed in a haze of mourning, as thick and disorienting as the unrelenting fog that crept over the stones of Venice each morning.

The Platte!" I gasped. "None other," Leeds said. "That's the sorriest river in America. You've heard all the jokes about the Platte. 'Too thick to drink, too thin to plow.' That's a nothing river.

Your precious dirty underpants and scores of blades are untouched by me. But I'm not thick. I can actually see something dangerous and not poke myself in the eye with it.

The sea wolves of these two islands are of various colors and of the size and thickness of a calf

A lifetime of practical and comfortable considerations settled atop the spark inside her like a thick, heavy blanket.

The mud lay thick upon the stones, and a black mist hung over the streets; the rain fell sluggishly down, and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch.

The clouds were as yellow as sulfur and roiling in thick curds all the way to the horizon, as though we were trapped beneath an ocean that was sliding over the edges of the earth.

The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity.

Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underword darkness. Cling like a bat and sway for ever swooning in the draughts of the darkness ---

His voice reminded her [Azalea] of rich, thick cream, the sort one could add to any recipe to make it taste better.

Waters thick. Bloods thick. I feel thick. You feel thick. God feels thick. So what's the matter?

Pulp doesn't bog us down with thematic ambiguity or thick flights of circumlocutory style. (I consulted a thesaurus to get circumlocutory, which is exactly the kind of thing pulp doesn't do.) Pulp is escapist and entertaining. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Do you not hear the constant victory, in the human footrace of time, slow as fire, sure, and thick and Herculean accumulating its volume and adding its sad fiber?

YOU—THE IRISH GIRL. OVER HERE." A THIN, SCOWLING MATRON in a white bonnet beckons with a bony finger. She must know I'm Irish from the papers Mr. Schatzman filled out when he brought me in to the Children's Aid several weeks ago—or perhaps it is my accent, still as thick as peat. "Humph," she says, pursing her lips, when I stand in front of her. "Red hair.

That night the rain began to fall so thickly and heavily, it seemed as though the bowl of the ocean had risen into the sky and upended itself.

The future smells of Russian leather, of blood, of godlessness and of much whipping. I advise our grandchildren to come into the world with very thick skin on their backs.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

The Carpenter said nothing but"The butter's spread too thick!"

You're not any of those. But I can't figure out if you're a clever person pretending to be thick, a thick person pretending to be clever, or just a chancer stumbling through the Winter without any sort of plan or thought at all.

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

The NightWings are going to set their heads on fire," Qibli agreed. "No, wait. They're going to set the closest IceWing's head on fire. Winter, I hope your skull is as thick as it looks.

She pouted. It's very serious, Uncle Varana. Naturally it is, he agreed, gently touching her out-thrust lower lip with one thick finger, but that's no reason not to laugh about it.