Top 100 Thin Quotes
#1. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.
Christina Aguilera
#2. It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.
Emily Procter
#3. Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
Daniel Dennett
#4. In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.
Roger Ebert
#5. It's more important to be healthy and of good spirit than it is to be thin, just as it's more important to be an attractive woman than a fashionable one.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#6. I knew I was treading on thin ice. Criticism of anyone's art, no matter how good the intentions, could be risky business.
Emma Scott
#7. A beetle lumbered up onto her arm, and she stilled herself, enjoying the tickling feeling of its thread-thin feet. It was deep green with shimmers of blue and turquoise, with pitch-black legs. She kissed it very softly. If happiness were a color, it would be the color of this beetle, thought Wil.
Katherine Rundell
#8. I was afraid of what he might be able to see. Because all of a suddent it didn't feel like we were standing on the beach anymore. It felt like we were balanced on a thin, thin line. That fragile one that divides the invisible space between something and nothing, or before and after.
Jessi Kirby
#9. Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.
Nostradamus
#10. To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
Naomi Wolf
#11. Maybe the truth of it all is that we're just too fearful to give our faith enough running room to realize that this precariously thin path that led us to the end of this life is dwarfed to obscurity by the infinitely vast byway that begins immediately on the other side.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#12. Costis followed, telling himself that it wasn't true that he and the king and even the stone under their feet were nothing but tissue, transparently thin, and that for a moment, the only real thing in the universe had been there on the parapet with the king.
Megan Whalen Turner
#13. I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
Dale Carnegie
#14. Don't you remember anything?! There is no 'devil.' There is no 'hell.' There is only Unrest. There is no down, only sideways; the transparent beside the opaque, and a thin wall to separate them.
Leanna Renee Hieber
#15. There were three thin wrinkles at her neckline, sharply etched, like notches on the road of life. Or maybe they were marks to commemorate when three wishes had come true - though Ushikawa had serious doubt that this had ever happened.
Haruki Murakami
#16. I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.
Linda Evans
#17. His eyes kindled and a slight flush sprang into his thin cheeks. For an instant the veil had lifted upon his keen, intense nature, but for an instant only. When I glanced again his face had resumed that red-Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#18. Some men are like a church-organ
you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box
they have four or five thin jingles.
Austin O'Malley
#19. Mr. Tagomi turned to a passer-by, a thin man in rumpled suit. "What is that?" he demanded, pointing. The man grinned. "Awful, ain't it? That's the Embarcadero Freeway. A lot of people think it stinks up the view.
Philip K. Dick
#20. Balance how much you give of youself, including volunteer activities.You won't do anyone any good you are stretched too thin.
Monika Kristofferson
#21. Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.
Barack Obama
#22. Unless you learn to control your thoughts, you will never be able to control your actions; and if you can't control your actions, you are walking on thin ice.
Bohdi Sanders
#23. It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?
Melody Carlson
#24. I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.
Lea Michele
#25. There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination.
Ogwo David Emenike
#26. They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
Toby Jones
#27. Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.
Marge Piercy
#28. Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.
Joe Abercrombie
#29. Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'
Carol Vorderman
#30. I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
Aaron Douglas
#31. There was always that shadowy twin, thin when i was fat, fat when i was thin, myself in silvery narrative ...
Margaret Atwood
#32. It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,
Or draw a line daring them to cross.
Anne Spencer
#33. I'm not thin! I just wear clothes that make me look thin.
Shreya Ghoshal
#34. The silence seemed to gain weight between us, his face turned hard, and his lips became a thin, grim line. He pushed me away from him. "If I wanted to drain you, Cassandra," he said, his voice deep, "it wouldn't be your blood you should be concerned about.
L.J. Kentowski
#35. I have always loved the many moods of the sky at Rocky Flats. Turquoise and teal in summer, fiery red at sunset, iron gray when snow is on the way. The land rolls in waves of tall prairie grass bowed to the wind, or sprawling mantles of white frosted with a thin sheath of ice in winter.
Kristen Iversen
#36. Worry makes people thin, except when they worry about being fat.
Evan Esar
#37. The messages a woman receives from modern North American culture are contradictory; she needs a job for fulfillment but should be home with her children; she is more than her looks, but she had better wear makeup and stay thin; she has every opportunity men have but only on men's terms.
Janell L. Carroll
#38. I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
Georg Brandes
#39. If we're being honest, we don't call ourselves royalty. If we're being honest, we call ourselves timid, confused, and insecure. All our self-loathing and self-promoting is a thin veil covering over our frightening conviction that we are nobodies.
Tony Reinke
#40. In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
Sadie Jones
#41. Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex - ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.
Jenna McCarthy
#42. With nothing more than thin spandex covering my chest, even the blind would notice that my nipples were so hard, they could cut glass
Jeaniene Frost
#43. They say one should never trust a thin chef. By this measure, Chef Maurice was very trustworthy indeed.
J.A. Lang
#44. I'd rather be thin than famous
but I'm fat
paste that in your broadway show
Jack Kerouac
#45. True, I talk of dreams; which are children of the idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as air and more inconstant than the wind.
William Shakespeare
#46. For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air.
Debasish Mridha
#47. I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the beach and then realized that it was his own. Myself, small as a leaf, thin as water, begins to cry.
Audrey Niffenegger
#48. But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin.
Orson Scott Card
#49. Box held seven hammered-gold rings, each as thin as manila paper, to be worn stacked. And he had gotten himself a ring too,
Piper Kerman
#50. Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse ... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.
Ralph E. Reed Jr.
#51. What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?
Charles Yu
#52. The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock is always important.
Leonie Swann
#53. Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.
Neil Peart
#54. When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.
Katherine Heigl
#55. Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it.
Stacy London
#56. Don't do it. Please. I know this book looks delicious with its light-weight pages sliced thin a prosciutto and swiss stacked in a way that would make Dagwood salivate. The scent of freshly baked words wafting up with every turn of the page. Mmmm page. But don't do it. Not yet. Don't eat this book.
Morgan Spurlock
#57. There's very little in my world that a foot massage and a thin-crust, everything-on-it pizza won't set right.
G.A. McKevett
#58. Legends, then, are seldom formed out of thin air. They grow out of something real. That original something may be extremely different from the final legend, but the kernel of truth is there nevertheless.
Catherine M. Andronik
#59. The tall, thin serious man strode in, his dark cloak billowing so dramatically it threatened to extinguish the lamp flame with its draught. He advanced like a malevolent shadow consuming the dim orange light, filling the room with a presence almost more than human.
Gregory Figg
#60. And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!
Kate Atkinson
#61. All those poeple living in their paper houses, burning they paper future to stay warm. All the paper kids, drinking paper beer some bum bought for them at the paper convienience store ... All this things paper-thin and paper-frail.
John Green
#62. Uh...are we going to talk about what just happened?" Victoria asked as Drake stepped over to Finn's desk to look at the map layout of the cemetery, seemingly calm about the fact that Bo and Nyx had just disappeared into thin air.
Katie Reus
#63. The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.
David Nicholls
#64. 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
#65. I often felt we lived in a lighted house of glass, and that any moment some thin-lipped parchment face would peer through a carelessly unshaded window to obtain a free glimpse of things that the most jaded voyeur would have paid a small fortune to watch.
Vladimir Nabokov
#66. I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.
James Ellroy
#67. A dead look in her eye, a thin grimace to her lips, a sick pallor to her skin that spoke of despair
Melina Marchetta
#68. He smelt strongly of woodsmoke, blood, and unwashed male, but the night chill bit through my thin dress and I was happy enough to lean back against him.
Diana Gabaldon
#69. Just because you're not thin does not mean you're ugly. You are beautiful because of the light you carry inside you. You are beautiful because you say you are, and you hold yourself that way.
Mary Lambert
#70. This river is so old. When the Nephilim walked the land and men were like grasshoppers at their feet, it was flashing as thin and quick as a minnow.
Kristopher Reisz
#71. I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
Felicity Huffman
#72. In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival.
Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.
Ka
#73. I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.
Robin Gibb
#75. We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.
Julie Otsuka
#76. It was technological and black and thin and therefore Evil, but ... it was also a book.
Helen Fielding
#77. Noon was approaching and the shadows under the sycamores were thin and short. The surface of the blue-tiled fish-pond was glassily still and water splashed monotonously into the fountain's basins. Khaemwaset held his fingers under the glittering flow and found it silky and warm.
Pauline Gedge
#78. If this world is wearing thin And you're thinking of escape I'll go anywhere with you Just wrap me up in chains But if you try to go alone Don't think I'll understand (Stay) Stay with me
Siobhan Fahey
#79. When you really love somebody, you stick with them through thick and thin and you'll do anything not to let that person go.
Miranda Liasson
#80. I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.
Shalom Harlow
#81. In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread-and-butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson's favourite economy.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#82. I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.
Twiggy
#83. You are in the Thin Veil, the Black Sunshine.
Karina Halle
#84. Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.
Alex Chiu
#85. A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old.
Thomas Kibble Hervey
#86. Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
Caroline Knapp
#87. There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.
Big Sean
#88. I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.
Kim Cattrall
#89. Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.
Frederick Lenz
#90. Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore De Balzac
#91. I love the big, like, basketball sweats ... and I only wear vintage T-shirts to bed, because I like the super-thin ones.
Brad Goreski
#93. I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic bags are among the worst. The US is actually falling behind the curve on that score. China and many other countries have already banned the production and use of thin plastic bags.
Edward Norton
#94. I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
Sophia Loren
#95. My daughters related to something in the Spice Girls that made them feel better about being female. They truly started to believe girls could do anything. They could be fat, thin, anything they wanted to be.
Jennifer Saunders
#96. His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
Abraham Lincoln
#97. Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.
Dawn French
#98. Ah, Brynn," Vercleese boomed at one tall, extremely thin man with a dreamy air about him and a face dusted with fine white flour. "How's the bread business?" The man pulled himself from whatever reverie gripped him and smiled wanly. "Rising, Sir Vercleese, always rising." Vercleese
Douglas W. Clark
#99. In these moments, it always feels like my skin is too thin, like everyone can see right inside me, can see my empty and dark insides.
Jasmine Warga
#100. Pretend that I ain't in fact/Coming off like a thin hat/Where strong wind at
Elzhi
