Thick Quotes - Page 27

• The undulent landscape looks serene in every direction. Honey-colored farmhouses, gently placed in hollows, rise like thick loaves of bread set out to cool.

  Frances Mayes

  Looks, Landscape, Honey

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• You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule Should ever be kept at the front;-- Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Fighting, Sweat, Bed

  Edmund Vance Cooke, “Don't Take Your Troubles To Bed”

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• I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.

  Hugh Elliot

  Clay, Thumbprints, Left

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• When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2389, Delphi Classics

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• I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

  Richard Schiff

  Years, Skulls, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to have a thin skin. As a creative person, you have to. You can't get a thick skin.

  Emma Stone

  Creative, Skins, Thick Skin

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning on her flashlight, not afraid because sometimes in the pitch of night they'd lie on their backs in the middle of the path and look up until the stars came back and when they did, they'd reach their arms up to touch them and did.

  Jandy Nelson

  Sister, Stars, Lying

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• He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

  John Fowles

  Wall, Thinking, Glasses

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

  Kathleen Norris

  Goal, Vision, Delay

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• The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

  Ann Patchett

  Cutting, Light, Tree

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• She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.

  Sarah Dessen

  Summer, Confused, Eye

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “Just Listen: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

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• Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember Dad explaining how the Egyptians made it from a river plant because they never invented paper. The stuff was so thick and rough, it made me wonder if the poor Egyptians had had to use toilet papyrus. If so, no wonder they walked sideways.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Cat, Rivers

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• One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.

  John Green

  Trying, Looks, Stories

  John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to *dream*. Maybe, if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for a few hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.

  Richelle Mead

  Voice, Laughing, Arms

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.329, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• and i walked for hours the mist growing thick and whole the thought of disappaering like that, so simply, made me so happy

  Jay Asher

  Growing, Hours, Mist

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• Focus on your work. Be the best you that you can be. Develop a thick skin and let things roll off your back. And keep a sense of humor!

  Megan Alexander

  Focus, Skins, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I have to admit that I haven't read any of the books [of George Martin's "Game of Thrones"] and I don't refer to them. Apart from anything else they're very thick [in size] and they frighten me. A terrifying prospect.

  Charles Dance

  Book, Games, Thrones

  "Game of Thrones, Charles Dance interview: ‘I treat Peter Dinklage appallingly’". Interview with James Lachno, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• Even though I was painted, even though I had on seven layers of paint - to the point that I got a tan, it was as thick as a fabric - I think I felt the most naked because I couldn't cover myself at all. I didn't have to, so I had to be much more open and relaxed.

  Ronda Rousey

  Thinking, Naked, Fabric

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

  Max Lucado

  Here I Am, Thick Of It, Wanted

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

  Freida Pinto

  Skins, Faces, Paper

  "Freida Pinto: The Goddess". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I got a really thick strong accent. I'm a nerd, nah not really, I'm goofy. You have to know me. You'll see it, people who know me see it.

  Kiley Dean

  Strong, People, Nerd

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• I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to watch TV and write things that people would say and now I tend to get it more out of books and from conversations with people I meet.

  Thighpaulsandra

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is an object; that it's not a window into something - you're not looking at a landscape, you're not looking at a portrait, but you're looking at a painting. It's basically: A painting is a painting is a painting. And it's what Frank Stella said famously: What you see is what you see.

  Frank Stella

  Portraits, Bars, Landscape

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.

  Thomas Sowell

  Silly, People, Soldier

  "Live: Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Isaac, www.aei.org. January 1, 2004.

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