Thickened Quotes

#1. On one of these occasions, suddenly there hovered around the top of the rock a brightness of unequaled clearness and color, which, in increasingly smaller circles thickened, was the enchanting figure of the beautiful Lore.

Mark Twain

#2. The rivers that sprang from Hvergelmir streamed into the void. The yeasty venom in them thickened and congealed like slag, and the rivers turned into ice.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#3. I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.

Bernardino Ramazzini

#4. She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indifference - and now the fog had thickened till he was almost indistinguishable.

Edith Wharton

#5. Darkness thickened and collapsed about him. Some of it never lifted again.

Isaac Asimov

#6. White-flowered shrubs thickened around her and so did sleep; it directed her limbs. Lie down now, sleep said sweetly. Lie down. These are the secret hours of the day, the time that owls and bats take to themselves. The stars change places now; let them. You lie down.

Helen Oyeyemi

#7. Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the origin of mountains, with the origin of mountains left out.

James Dwight Dana

#8. I could not discuss what had happened to me with anyone, I could not even admit it to myself; and, while I never thought about it, it remained, nevertheless, at the bottom of my mind, as still and as awful as a decomposing corpse. And it changed, it thickened, it soured the atmosphere of my mind.

James Baldwin

#9. For a light and airy cake, it's imperative that the egg yolks and sugar are slightly thickened before incorporating the chocolate. Mom

Ellie Alexander

#10. Pixy dust thickened to make my eyes water, but after the loud complaints and muttered disappointment, the Disney nightmare subsided as quickly as it had come.

Kim Harrison

#11. I tried to curl around him, holding him with my arching body. His mouth was slow and searching, the kisses hard at first, then loosening as if unraveling from their own heat. The pleasure thickened, hard flushes rising through me, bringing the desire to full-slip ripeness.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. he could see the darkness pulse, and the smell of decay had thickened to a stench.

Steven Erikson

#13. I had never spent so much time by the sea, and hated the way the air thickened with salt and sat on my skin and made me always long for a bath. I was far more comfortable with dust.

Paula McLain

#14. The disabilities of the people who came to him were established so young, in such delicate years, that their tender agonies were, by the time they arrived in his office, thickened into a stunned arrangement of expressions, deflections, and shrewd manipulations. No,

Elizabeth Strout

#15. I looked briefly up from my notes. I was surrounded by hearts, sectioned and preserved. Hearts with holes. Hearts with leaking valves or thickened walls. Hearts with narrow or transposed aortas. I closed my eyes.

Claire Holden Rothman

#16. The sky, drunk with spring and giddy with its fumes, thickened with clouds. Low clouds, drooping at the edges like felt sailed over the woods and rain leapt from them, warm, smelling of soil and sweat, and washing the last of the black armor-plating of ice from the earth.

Boris Pasternak

#17. The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of humans into apparitions. There were no people on the street anymore. They were rumors carrying bags.

Markus Zusak

#18. As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

Charles Dickens

#19. The point was the struggle. The earth thickened here so that he would labor. The shovel felt heavy so that he could feel he was doing something. The world provided resistance, and as we struggled through, we learned our final lessons.

David Vann

#20. Embarrassment thickened in his throat like phlegm.

Ross Macdonald

#21. The meaning of culture is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

John Cowper Powys

#22. Shank or canned tomatoes thickened with paste for a kind of red sauce to pour over noodles.

Robyn Carr

#23. The world we live in is but thickened light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. And time thickened so that the seconds passed like years.

Kate Morton

#25. All the angry, blood thirsty needs headed rapidly south. My cock tightened, thickened, hardened. Bare skin. Bare breasts. Bare everything.

Pepper Winters

#26. If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.

Will Self

#27. through them all - no, they hadn't been open for service that day and no, there hadn't been anyone at the restaurant; yes, everything was up to code and she had a

Cali MacKay

#28. We knew from our reading of great literature that Love involved Suffering, and would happily have got in some practice at Suffering if there was an implicit, perhaps even logical, promise that Love might be on its way.

Julian Barnes

#29. The best way to look five years younger is to be born 5 years later

Haresh Daswani

#30. I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.

Aleksandra Mir

#31. When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.

Craig Venter

#32. Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

Sara Sheridan

#33. This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#34. You change the world by changing your thought. You change the thought by changing your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Be as thou wast wont to be.

William Shakespeare

#36. It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#37. There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

Marc Racicot

#38. I could not see my own cold light, but I imagined it to be shimmering brightly, with Death looming close by. After such a dream, how could it not?

Robin Bridges

#39. Shut the damned door. you're lettin' the flies out.

Sumner Wilson