Quotes About Thin

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

Always it seems That only a thin veil-- Sheer as the music of the nightingale-- Trembles and streams Between me and the mystery of dreams.

called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his knife with my guts, to no avail." "Did you get a good look at him? Could you describe him?" Howie smiled wanly. "Yeah. He was about yay long" --he held up his hands, four inches apart-- "thin, made of steel. Pointy. Sharp.

He was so thin, so translucent, that he had to pass through the same place twice to leave a shadow.

Between genius and madness there is often not the thickness of a hair.

It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.

I think the best way I can tell it to you is — that last night I loved the starlight — the dark — the wind and the miles and miles of the thin strip of dark that is land — It was wonderfully big — and dark and starlight and night moving —

I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

He begged hard, and said he couldn't play—a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

And I've turned corners there was no going back to, corners in the middle of a room that led to Spain or solitude. And always the thin line between corner and cornered, the good corners of bodies and those severe bodies that permit no repose, the places we retreat to, the places we can't bear to be found.

The sun loses its thin grip on the air first, turning it cold, making it remember that winter is coming and winter will be long. Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat clouds in the sky to make them thick. They are gaunt, mean shadows that bite the ground like teeth.

Due to some mental hiccup I can't explain, when I think of God, I picture Hugh Hefner: a thin, angular man with a prominent chin in a maroon smoking jacket.

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

What was sport but a thin veneer over the factional fighting it had replaced—ritualized violence, bloody entertainment?

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Ribbons! Long ones, short ones, ones for every mood." He does a little dance to the singsong rhythm. "Thin ones, thick ones, and ones to tie your shoes!

The moon was thin like a hook, and the owls were calling. The smell of fall leaves blew on the wind and Hayes was dead.

She was a thin, sharp-boned woman who reminded Blanche of ribbon candy—all curves and gloss

The sun loses it's thin grip on the air first, turning it cold, making it remember that winter is coming and winter will be long.

reality is a thin skim of ice over a deep lake of dark water.

You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.

the chaos forever lurking beneath our thin surfaces of security.

A thin present issues from a thin, sketchy, rudimentary relation with the future--one that has not much structure to it.