Thick Quotes - Page 9

• Love is thick and it swallows me whole.

  Alanis Morissette

  Love, Love Is, Whole

  Song: Head Over Feet, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Blow, Media

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find it more natural to write down the thoughts rather than the deeds of our characters. But speaking as a teacher who has spent some twenty years slogging through manuscripts where thoughts and exposition pile up as thick as the aftermath of a California mudslide, I can attest to the power of the evocative detail, gesture, or figment of speech.

  Les Standiford

  Running, Teacher, Character

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• A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Philistines, Backwoods

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• I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

  Graham Joyce

  People, Novelists, Language

  "Don't confuse 'readability' with dumbing down" by Graham Joyce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Summer, Thinking, Water

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• Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick as two short planks,' became the exception as girls from Benenden and Downe House started to fast-track towards the City and law, consultancy, media and the arts.

  Peter York

  Girl, Art, Two

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• About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.

  Max Walker

  Sports, Art, Creative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken. There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path. But this is a time when the future seems a door you can walk right through into a room called tomorrow.

  George H. W. Bush

  Taken, Fog, Doors

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Skins, Trying, Thick Skin

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• God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.

  Whitley Strieber

  Fall, Night, Voice

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• When the thick layers of dark clouds occupy the sky, if there is no wind at all to sweep them away, start blowing with courage and belief

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Clouds, Wind

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• When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Long, Water

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• Every time the light turns green, stay in the thick of competition.

  Don Garlits

  Light, Competition, Green

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• The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

  Robin McKinley

  Country, Dust, Land

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin

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• There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Suicide, Suicidal

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• I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair.

  Leona Lewis

  Hair, Mind, Suffering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like thick or middle (spaghetti). Thin for me is always overcooked by the time I'm eating it.

  Mario Batali

  Eating, Spaghetti, Middle

  Interview with Liz Biro, www.indystar.com. November 21, 2015.

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• What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Adventure, Winter

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2919, Delphi Classics

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• A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Coffee, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.52

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• I love a nice hot pink. I like thick lipstick, otherwise it doesn't look like you're wearing any.

  Iris Apfel

  Nice, Hot, Looks

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• I will never grow thick skin, so that you don't have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.

  Daniel Pearce

  Skins, Jerk, Thick Skin

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• My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Trying, Faces, Mittens

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Dry”, p.240, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Assessment, Skins, Remember

  "‘The Man in the High Castle’ producer Frank Spotnitz on his Amazon pilot". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 2, 2015.

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• It was shocking to see a leg! You've never seen a leg in these stories. We made it a little saloon girl. We played up on many elements because everything is just very covered and the tights are very thick and heavy. And then to have it all fell apart, absolutely, we wanted to see the leg!

  Jerusha Hess

  Girl, Tights, Stories

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