Slim Quotes - Page 3

• Ive been told that if I lose weight Id have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards. To the rest of the world I am slim and I like the way I am.

  Liv Tyler

  Hollywood, World, Weight

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• I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.

  Arnold Adoff

  Jobs, Attitude, Children

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• On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed; They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight.

  Heinrich Heine

  Light, Blue, Dragons

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• The cool thing about being best friends is that you can make big plans even if there's only a slim chance in hell that they'll ever happen.

  Yvonne Prinz

  Chance, Hell, Bigs

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• Will the real Slim Shady, please stand up?!

  Tito Sotto

  Real, Shady, Please

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• And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Hymns, White

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Amores: Top Novelist Focus”, p.29, 谷月社

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• At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

  Jilly Cooper

  Home, Soup, Cabbage

  "My favourite table". Interview with Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

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• She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a middle of a night I could hear her creaking around the dead house with a pen in one hand, a clipboard and a flashlight in the other, refining her poems, jotting down the lines of a conceit. Writing never came easy for her; it gave her calluses. She never courted the muses, she wrestled them, mauled them all over the house and came up, after weeks of peripatetic labor, with a slim Spencerian sonnet, fourteen lines of imagistic jabberwocky.

  Millard Kaufman

  Writing, Night, Hands

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• When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Moon, Jewels

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• If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

  Ann Brashares

  Girl, Choices, World

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• I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Book, Yesterday

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.11, Macmillan

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• And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime. Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Kissing, Doubt, Way

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• Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.

  Richelle Mead

  Figures, Modest, Tall

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.29, Penguin

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• Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Phones, Library, Bats

  Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.173, Del Rey

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• The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast

  Rachel Caine

  Chocolate, Wish, Fortune

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Chill Factor”, p.2, Allison & Busby

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• Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

  Langston Hughes

  Night, Tree, Black

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.33, University of Missouri Press

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• Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

  Margaret Atwood

  Greed, Promise, Fuel

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• The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Summer, Wise, Spring

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• I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Hate, Crazy

  "Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie". Book by Mark Allan Jackson, 2007.

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• I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.

  Heidi Julavits

  Humorous, Heart, Imagination

  Heidi Julavits (2004). “The Effect of Living Backwards”, p.260, Penguin

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• You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Smart, Independent, Home

  Adeline Yen Mah (1997). “Falling leaves return to their roots”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

  Jane Green

  Disappointment, Thinking, Perfect

  "Jemima J".

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• Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of fortune types picking their way through the bodies and the rubble. "Amy?" Oh, God. It was Amy. "Get away from her," Jenna ordered, stepping out from behind the conifer, wielding the iron pan like a club. Both men stopped. Glanced at her. Glanced at each other over Amy's head. "What?" The biggest one grunted out a surly laugh. "Or you'll souffle us?" Okay. She was definitely going after him first.

  Cindy Gerard

  Men, Two, Iron

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• Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Bird, Elements, Seagull

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• I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

  Pinetop Perkins

  Player, Piano, Pieces

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