Quotes About Thin

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

He must have been like a thin brown skeleton autumn leaf dancing eternally before the wind; but in truth it was he that was the wind.

And you, mother, stood behind me, impatient to be going, old at twenty-three, alone, thin overcoat flapping.

Oh, it sounds ridiculous, I know, in Britain in the twentieth century, but I learned in the war that civilization anywhere is a very thin crust.

There was something fascinating about tall thin men, the way their bones and Adam's apple lurked so unconcealed beneath the skin, their birdlike faces, their predatory stoop.

When I was a teenager, I would have tried anything that an actress I liked was doing to get thin.

My hair's actually really thin, but I just throw some hairspray into it and make sure it's been a couple days dirty, and then it goes the direction that you want it, literally!

THE VEIL OF CIVILISATION was thin indeed, so easily torn away to reveal depravity waiting beneath, waiting, as such things always did, for the first hint of turbulence.

I was a pampered plaything, pale and thin; a sickle moon to the memory of Mewt's slaughtered sun king.

Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love.

The moon was now paper-thin and fading. That moon was sky-tinged, the way you could see right through it to the blue of the evening light, and it was hung like a damp tissue as though pressed against glass.

He was extremely thin, with shoulder-length white hair neatly combed beside a face so seamed and wrinkled, it hardly seemed real.

if women's journalism is sponsored by a $33-billion industry whose capital is made out of the political fear of women; then we can understand why the Iron Maiden is so thin. The thin ideal is not beautiful aesthetically; she is beautiful as a political solution.

The proximity of Mary filled him with excitement; he had to work to slow his breathing. A drop, another drop – he was flicking his penis dry. It grew long and thin, the corona pointed and cleft like a hoof.

My wit is thynne.

Hey," he said. He didn't jump, even though I just spoke to him from seemingly thin air. "Do you need a hand with all of that equipment?" "Oh sure, he totally needs your help with his equipment," Maud whispered. I stomped on her foot, but she was fast, and I only got the edge of her toes.

Privacy is a luxury of the well-to-do because most Chileans have none. Middle-class families and below live in very close quarters, in many homes several people sleep in the same bed. When there is more than one room, the dividing walls are so thin that every sigh comes right through.

I related my impressions of La Paz, its purple mountains, its hermetic Indians, and its air, so thin that your lungs are always on the verge of filling with foam and your mind with hallucinations.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

There is also clear evidence that the most protective weight for health purposes is a BMI of 27.5 (if one accepts the BMI at all) - a figure that is presently in the recently designated overweight category. Interestingly, overweight people who exercise have a lower mortality rate that thin people who do not. So one is led to wonder why thin has erroneously become the gold standard for health.

Like my soul is wearing thin.

He looked solid, like an oar, whereas Jesse—well, she decided, Jesse was like water: thin, and quick.