Thin Quotes
1077 quotes by 872 authors
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Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His sleeves were pushed…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS…
— Harlan Ellison
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The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.
— Augusten Burroughs
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And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before.…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous…
— Ilona Andrews
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There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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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…
— Ann Brashares
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Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking…
— Thomas Hardy
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The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has…
— Mary Oliver
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They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is…
— Markus Zusak
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What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration.…
— Isaac Newton
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If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across
— Mercedes Lackey
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Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same…
— Charles Yu
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My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind
— Tana French
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Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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She is sitting on frozen ground wrapped in a blanket, her pale skin shining. She smiles and she stands and without words, she steps forward,…
— James Frey
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I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine...…
— Francesca Lia Block
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It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air,…
— Walker Percy
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In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all…
— Emma Donoghue
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