Thick Quotes

• A thick skin is a gift from God.

  Konrad Adenauer

  God, Criticism, Skins

  In New York Times 30 Dec. 1959, p. 5

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. “Is that why they named you Aphros?” Leo asked as they glided down the path from the cave. “Because of the Afro?” Aphros scowled. “What do you mean?” “Nothing,” Leo said quickly.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Hair, Blue

  3 Copy quote

• The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.

  James Lee

  Fall, Rain, Cutting

  12 Copy quote

• Am I horny enough to hump a bedpost?" Mica asked. "Not quite yet. Should I consult with you first, Doctor?" Sarcasm lay thick and heavy in her voice. "I believe a consult would be a good idea." Ely nodded with mocking solemnity as Mica lifted herself onto the gurney. "You never know what you may end up hurting if the act isn't done properly.

  Lora Leigh

  Hurt, Believe, Sarcasm

  Lora Leigh (2011). “Navarro's Promise”, p.141, Penguin

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Hippie, Hair, Shoes

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.31, Anchor

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that was never moored, nor hear a shadow in its furs, nor move through thick life without fear. For us, all that's left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive. Deep in the transparent night they're still humming, at home in the dark wood on the mountain, in the mint and lungwort and the past. But lay to your heart my rough gift, this unlovely dry necklace of dead bees that once made a sun out of honey.

  Osip Mandelstam

  Moving, Home, Heart

  22 Copy quote

• To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the public... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Government, Benefits, Jargon

  19 Copy quote

• I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time, for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very pleasing. The first time you try Gorgonzola cheese you may find it too strong, but when you are older you may want to eat nothing but Gorgonzola cheese. Klaus, when Sunny was born, did not like her at all, but by the time she was six weeks old the two of them were thick as thieves. Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

  Daniel Handler

  Strong, Two, First Impression

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

  John Muir

  Lying, Light, Ice

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.348, Library of America

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard—

  Gena Showalter

  Book, Needs, Plunder

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Twice as Hot”, p.18, Harlequin

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's like you're born with all these blessings, only you don't realize they're blessings until you lose them. And if you're thick-headed enough, like me, you don't even realize you've lost them, not until they come back to you.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Blessing, Realizing, Like You

  3 Copy quote

• It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

  Albert Camus

  Silence, Calamity, Plague

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

  Dee Brown

  Moving, White, People

  Dee Brown (2012). “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West”, p.252, Open Road Media

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Liars, Men, Mountain

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2015). “Wonder, Hope, Love, and Loss: The Selected Novels of Gene Stratton-Porter”, p.410, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• He sank into that kiss, and fed from me like a starving man holding off famine. I drank from his soul in preparation for the drought to come. And when he finally pulled away, my throat was thick with unspoken words, my heart heavy with every apology I'd ever denied him. But it was too late for promises. The time had come for goodbye.

  Rachel Vincent

  Goodbye, Heart, Kissing

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Pride”, p.424, MIRA

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.

  Michael Gira

  Glasses, Water, Mouths

  19 Copy quote

• Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

  Carl Jung

  Brave, Shadow, Enough

  11 Copy quote

• My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Sex, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• What if the Church and the State
  Are the mob that howls at the door!
  Wine shall run thick to the end,
  Bread taste sour.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Wine, Government

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.80, Hayes Barton Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Fall, Mean

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VIII, Section 4,

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.

  Rajneesh

  Happy, Hurt, People

  3 Copy quote

• All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Memories, Flower, Mean

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.90, Penguin

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Climb the steep Cold Mountain way Roads to Cold Mountain are many and never ending The valleys are long and deep, the peaks piled high The streams are wide, the grass is thick The moss is slippery though there is no rain The pines sigh though there is no wind Who can escape the snares of the world And come to sit with me among the white clouds?

  Hanshan

  Rain, Clouds, Wind

  8 Copy quote

• He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black.

  Malcolm X

  White, Black, May

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.37, Ballantine Books

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Elephants, Self, Doubt

  "I'm 16, lonely and depressed, with nowhere to turn" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2014.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source