Thin Quotes
1077 quotes by 872 authors
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I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want…
— Sara Zarr
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It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward…
— Simon Pegg
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Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for…
— David Nicholls
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I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut…
— Dodie Smith
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The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.
— Neil Gaiman
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Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks…
— Maureen Johnson
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I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them…
— Stefan Zweig
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I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
— Hayao Miyazaki
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Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and…
— William Faulkner
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There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion
— Candace Bushnell
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I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity,…
— Ilona Andrews
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The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The exceptions were two men a little ahead of them, standing just outside the Three Broomsticks. One was very tall and thin; squinting through his…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of…
— Paula McLain
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And Derek was... what? A pair of dark eyes that hid more than they revealed and some broad shoulders and a mouth that could be…
— Claire LaZebnik
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...they come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so…
— Mira Grant
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