Thick Quotes - Page 12

• Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.

  John Legend

  Song, Determination, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In the performing arts you have to have thick, thick, thick skin, because of all the rejection you face on a daily basis, and the fact that work never lasts for very long. But you need thin, thin, thin skin in order to access all of your emotions and your creativity so that you can express it. You can't be dead inside. Otherwise you've got nothing to give. So it's a paradox, that we have to exist in both planes in order to do what we do.

  Audra McDonald

  Art, Creativity, Order

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I love that after a day when nothing is sure, and when I say 'nothing' I mean nothing, you can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. It's such a comfort.

  Julie Powell

  Home, Mean, Eggs

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• Your confidence is the 15th club in your bag. You'd like it to be a thick headed driver. But it sometimes seems like a pretty weak little stick.

  Peter Jacobsen

  Golf, Bags, Clubs

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• Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.

  Miranda Lambert

  Country, Artist, Careers

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

  Terry Gilliam

  Unique, Stupidity, Skins

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wise, Religious, Simplicity

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• I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

  Sia Furler

  Heart, Skins, Thick Skin

  "Song: 'Elastic Heart'". 2013.

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• With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.

  Nobu Matsuhisa

  Cutting, Balance, Sushi

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• Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

  Martial

  Pain, Joy, Fewer

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• Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

  Annie Dillard

  Art, People, Choices

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Mistake, Blessing

  Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

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• In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Winter, Fire, Snow

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1112, Delphi Classics

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• How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dark, Night, Fog

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Complete Plays: 1932-1943”

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• In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
  There is a new-made grave today,
  Built by never a spade nor pick,
  Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.
  There lie many fighting men.
  Dead in their youthful prime.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Lying, Fighting, Men

  Joyce Kilmer (1918). “Joyce Kilmer”

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• O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

  Ovid

  Men, Darkness, Mind

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• Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
  [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae,
  Noctis habent.]

  Ovid

  Men, Heaven, Darkness

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• Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.

  Marge Piercy

  Country, Adversity, Ham

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.76, Knopf

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• The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

  Naomi Campbell

  Ankles, Tights, Skirts

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• Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

  Ed Zern

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

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• Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.

  Victoria Laurie

  Iron, Energy, Building

  Victoria Laurie (2008). “Death Perception: A Psychic Eye Mystery”, p.8, Penguin

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• I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence of the reader. … Compare children's books and books on Web Duhsign or other X-in-21-days books. If the reading level of a specification is below college level, chances are the people behind it are morons and the result morose.

  Erik Naggum

  Children, Believe, Book

  Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." (Usenet article), groups.google.com. September 30, 2002.

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• I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.

  Joy Harjo

  Cousin, Attitude, Thinking

  Joy Harjo (2004). “How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the nearest road, a spot so hard to reach that no one comes a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies and nesting jays, a sign that there is still one piece of property that won't be owned.

  Dana Gioia

  Dragonflies, Pieces, Half

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Powerful, Men, Tree

  Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.80, Northwestern University Press

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