Thick Quotes
693 quotes by 586 authors
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Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.
— Gary Snyder
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It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but…
— Flora Thompson
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Lovely girls are terribly insecure. They are convinced that their legs are too thick, and their bottoms are too big, and their bosoms are too…
— Richard J. Needham
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I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it ... into light.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms,…
— William Shakespeare
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Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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As the ego becomes strong it starts surrounding intelligence like a thick layer of darkness. Intelligence is light, ego is darkness. Intelligence is very delicate,…
— Rajneesh
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...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can…
— Gertrude Bell
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What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add…
— Nora Ephron
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and…
— William Shakespeare
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After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on…
— Charles Perrault
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When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms,…
— Mary Oliver
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If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth in your underwear, don't stop and start thinking of what other words have "under" in them, because…
— Jack Handey
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When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that: we grow…
— Jack Handey
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What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then…
— Charles Kuralt
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Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
— Red Smith
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Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to…
— Elif Safak
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I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and…
— Peter Capaldi
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