Thickening Quotes

#1. Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

George Eliot

#2. I always blend my mascaras, since some are better at lengthening and others are better at thickening.

Kristinia DeBarge

#3. The silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured

Joan Aiken

#4. In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones and thickening my blood. I felt older and smarter than anyone else I knew. I could do anything, anything at all.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#5. The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless.

John Le Carre

#6. Anyway, you don't know what's going to happen. I'm only just thickening the plot.
I'd say it was pretty thick already.
Thick plots are my specialty. If you want a thinner kind, look elsewhere.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Howard adores Sam's looks. He loves the strong cut of jaw made satin with thickening peach fuzz, loses himself in the green eyes. Howard stares at them like a lover, but always obliquely. (Sometimes we watch our son from a distance. "I wonder what he's thinking," Howard will say.)

Chandler Burr

#8. I was just past forty, that age when you wake up in the morning and feel something thickening inside and only people too old to matter refer to you as a young man anymore. (The Last Days of Il Duce)

Dominic Stansberry

#9. I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

Peter Beard

#10. Edward was dead. The magnitude of the news reverberated through me, thickening the air. His suffering was over. Yet what had he left behind? An England torn between Catholic and Protestant.

Ella March Chase

#11. Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

Marquis De Sade

#12. I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thinness of old age.

Charles Finch

#13. You have to have a certain kind of thickening of the hide. I mean, I'm not particularly worried about what other people think. If other people think that I was not the world's most perfect mother, they are completely right.

Anne Roiphe

#14. I thought how there was a kind of power in being needed. In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones and thickening my blood.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#15. A brick could be used to cook with, as a thickening agent in gravy. But as history proves, the thickest agents work for the government as tax collectors.

Jarod Kintz

#16. Coagulate, v.: It is a dangerous thing, this thickening of affection; you want it to have weight, but not to be an immovable burden.

David Levithan

#17. We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.

Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

#18. People have no idea of the things that don't happen to them - the lives they're not living, the deaths stalking them - and thank Christ for that. Hard enough to get through each day without glimpsing all the hovering possibilities, like insects thickening the air.

Emma Donoghue

#19. When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

Patricia Highsmith

#20. Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

Djuna Barnes

#21. Your arousal is like the sweetest perfume I've ever smelled ... I can sense it all around me - tingling against my skin, thickening your blood and shoving me off the edge of insanity.

Kenya Wright

#22. The pains in my heart don't go away these days. The heartaches are chronic; they layer on top of each other from one day to the next, thickening like a callus.

Eva Lesko Natiello

#23. the sweet drone of honeysuckle thickening the

Emma Cline

#24. [A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.

Myron Ebell

#25. But the cracks were splitting, finding power, thickening into chasms.

Anthony Doerr

#26. Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God. Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine. The

Huston Smith

#27. And then they walk away together, out of the allotted grooves of their afternoons and into the thickening shadows of evening, into the dim, liminal place where on path is taken, and another missed.

Laura Barnett

#28. Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

P. J. O'Rourke

#29. The benefits of a pure conscience comprise some of the greatest blessings of the Christian life.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#30. I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#31. Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#32. I just wanted to be a guy on the radio and I wanted to succeed, and I wanted a situation where I could be honest.

Rush Limbaugh

#33. I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

Ben Nicholson

#34. I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.

Megan Alexander

#35. Do you suppose it all means something?
That we're being left clues?
Perhaps.
Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated us.

Colin Cotterill

#36. Volumnia hastens to express her opinion that the shocking people ought to be tried as traitors, and made to support the Party.

Charles Dickens

#37. Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.

Marjane Satrapi

#38. You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and similarly they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four - if they could master the perspective of the thing.

H.G.Wells

#39. The greatness of a nation is not the military power to enforce its will upon others, but rather its capacity to inspire high ideals and a humanizing spirit.

James Forbes

#40. Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

William Shakespeare

#41. Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

Marcus Aurelius