Slimmest Quotes

#1. Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.

Ruth Benedict

#2. She had only the slimmest notion of what he meant, but his voice made her so horny she could barely keep from squirming, crossing her legs, or hopping about, like a little girl who had to go to the bathroom. On

Tom Robbins

#3. Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

Jesse James Garrett

#4. The difference between dead and not dead had never been so hard to see. It was the slimmest of lines. Possible to cross at any given moment.

Suzanne Brockmann

#5. Curvy people float better than lean beans, and women more than men, because even at our slimmest, we have an extra layer of fat distributed throughout our bodies.

Lynn Sherr

#6. If she[ ... ] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight - would she have begun?

Annie Dillard

#7. Russia's 62% of women and only 38% men, many of whom are heavy drinkers, so the battle for the female happiness is a rude one, only the slimmest, the leggiest, the blondest and the sexiest are the winners..

Alexander Vassiliev

#8. He made a mistake, and you beat him. You start to believe there's a chance, the slimmest chance, you might be able to do it again.

Nicole Singer

#9. I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts.

Twiggy

#10. Leave my past... come in the present (PLEASE).

Deyth Banger

#11. If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

Wendell Berry

#12. I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

Susan Orlean

#13. A confident person - knowing and believing in her identity - carries tools, not weapons.

Amy Cuddy

#14. It was I, no less solitary than he but having made the lesser use of the morning, who was to be pitied.

Teju Cole