Thin Quotes
1077 quotes by 872 authors
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Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not…
— Clive Barnes
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Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.
— Bob Thaves
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The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
— Cyril Connolly
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How long does getting thin take?
— A A Milne
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You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.
— Junot Diaz
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The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no…
— Horace
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By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too…
— Jason Epstein
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The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become…
— Charles Jencks
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I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin.
— Clint Howard
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If we get a girl who is bigger than a 4, she is not going to fit the clothes. Clothes look better on thin people.…
— Kelly Cutrone
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There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience…
— Cherie Lunghi
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My daughters related to something in the Spice Girls that made them feel better about being female. They truly started to believe girls could do…
— Jennifer Saunders
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Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look…
— Jennifer Saunders
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Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age…
— George Steiner
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I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would…
— Clare Balding
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The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on…
— Isabel Allende
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
— Dick Cavett
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Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always…
— Wole Soyinka
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