Thin Quotes

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How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut… — Shel Silverstein
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like… — William Shakespeare
The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth,… — Henry Beston
...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the… — Edgar Allan Poe
There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were… — Michael Ende
She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way… — Edith Wharton
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. — J.R.R. Tolkien
You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you… — Marya Hornbacher
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water… — Nhat Hanh
Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman… — Betty Smith
April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes… — Elizabeth Smart
Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a… — Lorrie Moore
Guilt is a rope that wears thin. — Ayn Rand
Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices… — Lewis Carroll
I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the… — Audrey Niffenegger
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless… — Sylvia Plath
You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not… — Geraldine Brooks
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft... — Jim Morrison
(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms… — Erich Maria Remarque
Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from… — Leonard Cohen

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