Top 33 Stretched Thin Quotes
#1. She wanted the city to be full of exclusive places turning people away, as long as they always accommodated her. It didn't work like that. What a stupid place to live - stretched thin, overbooked, sold out in advance.
Jennifer Egan
#2. When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.
Charles Tennyson Turner
#3. The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#4. Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun!
Frank Muller
#5. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
Barbara Kingsolver
#6. Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials.
Eminem
#7. I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#8. I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.'
Kevin McCloud
#9. Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen.
Bill Moyers
#10. Debbie shuffled back through her notes. "The president of the Owyhee Land and Irrigation Company was Whipple Phillips." "Whipple?" chuckled Xela. "Yep." "Don't name 'em like that anymore," said Roger.
Peter Clines
#11. Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
Mark Twain
#12. The capacity for loyalty is stretched too thin when it tries to attach itself to the hypothetical solidarity of the human race.
Christopher Lasch
#13. The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.
Larry Brown
#14. Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.
Drew Carey
#16. Lillian is humming to herself, stretched out on top of my bookcase like she doesn't mind the heat, and of course she doesn't. Even when she was alive, she could never seem to get warm. The tune she's humming is thin and tight with anxiety. It's the opposite of carefree.
Brenna Yovanoff
#17. There's a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It's hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility.
Tia Mowry
#18. Balance how much you give of youself, including volunteer activities.You won't do anyone any good you are stretched too thin.
Monika Kristofferson
#19. Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
Zach Wamp
#20. There was too much to feel strongly about, she was stretched too thin, so she could not quite feel anything about anything.
Frances Hardinge
#21. Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.
Tim Kreider
#22. ... the miracle about steel is that you can hammer it so thin it's stretched to its limit, but that doesn't mean it will break.
Jodi Picoult
#23. Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.
Bill Maher
#24. for the first time I am confronted with the fact that places and people are like things: both made of memories and meaningful to us in the same way: we construct ourselves in our conversations with them.
Bilal Tanweer
#25. His name meant "He Who Fasts for a Hundred Days," and in person he more than lived up to his name. He was so thin that he looked like skin stretched over bone. While Sister Aziza wore the hijab, Boqol Sawm wore a Saudi robe, a bit short, so that it showed his bony ankles.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#26. 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 all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#27. What did immortality do to one who was once mortal? It stretched him thin.
S. Jae-Jones
#28. Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
Elsie De Wolfe
#29. In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.
Rosamond Lehmann
#30. I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.
Connie May Fowler
#31. How easily Caleb had taken the teachings of his youth - the many gods, the animate spirit world - and simply recast them in terms of our teaching.
Geraldine Brooks
#32. When she walked ... she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#33. The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched with thin skin.
Jodi Picoult
