Quotes About Thin

Next item—three ladies, all English, a mother and two daughters. Each wears a helping of whipped white of egg on the top of their head; rather remarkable. The daughters are old, like the mother. The mother is old, like the daughters. All three are thin, flat-chested, tall, stiff, and tired-looking; their front teeth are worn outside, to intimidate plates and men.

The father was long and thin, with a red face framed in white whiskers, and looking like a living sandwich, a piece of ham carved like a face between two wads of hair.

The woman was first. She wore a pumpkin-orange blazer, blue jeans, sneakers, and ball-and-chain earrings. The word that came to mind was husky. Not big really. Husky. Everything was husky—even her hair, a sort of canned-corn yellow. The guy riding in on her fumes was geeky thin with a pointy head and a small, greased shock of black hair. He looked like an upside-down pencil. He spoke first.

How dirty she was, how thin, what a wild look she had! I have never seen a wilder-looking creature. Her eyes were bright. They were like the eyes of a wild animal.

Strangefellows's owner and bartender was a thin pale streak of misery who only wore black because no-one had come up with a darker colour yet.

The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world.

I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.

der Mann war groß und dünn, hatte Wangenknochen, mit denen man Tomaten hätte schneiden können comma und perfekt frisierte Haare.

It was technological and black and thin and therefore Evil, but... it was also a book.

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?

He gave her his hand, sensing the thin strong rod of obdurate competence that was the armature of her artsy Village style.

I am very skinny.

I was sooo skinny.

Come on, Ribsy. Come on, Ribs, old boy. I'm going to call you Ribsy because you're so thin.

scrawny neck.

I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling. --from Cut, written 24 October 1962

The wilderness is cracked and browned But through the water pale and thin Still shine the unoffending feet And there above the painter set   15 The Father and the Paraclete. .

Airlines the size of British Airways will need the A380 to increase capacity, and the 787 to increase frequency on heavily traveled routes and open up new long thin routes.

The pages gather in his left hand, thin out in his right.

Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

Time was as thin as hope.

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.