Slender Quotes

103 quotes by 95 authors

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. — Mark Twain
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender. — William James
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a… — Julia Cameron
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. — William Manchester
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender — Anne Boleyn
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes… — Hans Sloane
The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them… — Mark Twain
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to… — Alexander Hamilton
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins. — Ovid
I still battle with my deeply boring diet of, essentially, yogurt and breakfast cereal and granola bars. I hate dieting. I hate having to do… — Julianne Moore
I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive… — Ed O'Neill
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a… — William Mapother
Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked… — Christopher Hitchens
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar! — Russell Brand
These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot… — E. O. Wilson
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was… — Sybil Adelman
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. — Thomas Jefferson
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of… — Soong May-ling
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. — Charles Spurgeon

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