Thick Quotes - Page 17

• The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one-day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

  Paula Fox

  People, Special, Important

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• Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

  Debbie Ford

  Wall, Looks, Remember

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• If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

  Terry Gilliam

  Unique, Stupidity, Skins

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

  Martial

  Pain, Joy, Fewer

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• Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

  Annie Dillard

  Art, People, Choices

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Mistake, Blessing

  Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

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• In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Winter, Fire, Snow

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1112, Delphi Classics

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• How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dark, Night, Fog

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Complete Plays: 1932-1943”

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• In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
  There is a new-made grave today,
  Built by never a spade nor pick,
  Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.
  There lie many fighting men.
  Dead in their youthful prime.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Lying, Fighting, Men

  Joyce Kilmer (1918). “Joyce Kilmer”

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• O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

  Ovid

  Men, Darkness, Mind

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• Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
  [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae,
  Noctis habent.]

  Ovid

  Men, Heaven, Darkness

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• No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread.

  Florence Fabricant

  Summer, Food, Winter

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• I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Memories, Thinking, Keys

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• It's always great to have a great mascara that makes your lashes look thick and full. That's a definite must have.

  Carmen Electra

  Looks, Mascara, Lashes

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• As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

  Emun Elliott

  Skins, Actors, Used

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• Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. That’s a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics.

  Umair Haque

  Meaningful, Real, People

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• I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

  Mindy Kaling

  Dark, Skins, Resistance

  "The Funny Side of Love". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, nymag.com. September 19, 2010.

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• You deal with failure - strike, strike, strike - all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in a way - your hair is too dark, you're too ugly for the part, your audition wasn't good.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Dark, Hair, Skins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know -- teachers loved me, straight-A student.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Teacher, Kids, Glasses

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• The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.

  Shusaku Endo

  Song, Cities, Smell

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• I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.

  Sara Blakely

  Workout, Clothes, Band

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• I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

  Diane Abbott

  Hurt, People, Attacking

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• I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

  Viola Davis

  Mom, Believe, Order

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• I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

  Gordon Gee

  College, President, Skins

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Home, Genius, Lines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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