We’ve recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.
When the going gets tough, the leeches are nowhere to be found, but the real people – the real friends – are with you through thick and thin.
Summer in Seoul is full of thick heat that clings to your neck, the back of your knees.
I always had this perception that when you lift weights, you’re going to get bulky and thick. I didn’t realize you actually burn a lot of fat and that it trims you down.
I have been on the Internet for a long time and have always gotten hate on the Internet, so there is a thick skin I have developed.
When you’ve been in the tabloids as a drunken ‘It-boy’, people automatically assume you’re thick.
I’ve got thick skin.
Having a thick skin doesn’t mean that you’re hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn’t mean that things don’t bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.
As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
I grew up in the Middle East. My folks have a very thick, kind of Oklahoma accent; that’s where I was born. But we moved to the Middle East right after I was born, so I guess we were surrounded by English people and French people.
Since I played a warrior in ‘Magadheera,’ my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
I suffer from arachnophobia. I don’t mind the tiny spiders so much, it’s the ones with their legs covered in thick hair.
I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.
My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up – and I’m that person for sure.
There are people who say, ‘Oh this guy is quite thick.’ I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don’t mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, ‘No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.’
When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you’re confronted every day with all of the problems all around you.
I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.
Polynesian women are known for their long hair, glowing skin, and thick nails. And that comes from the local diet, which is mostly plant based with a little bit of fish and a lot of natural fats and oils.
We Houstonians are a spicy lot. We raise our babies with tongues of fire, mostly lit by chips and salsa. Our blood is as thick and warm as queso.
I’m strong enough and have a pretty thick skin, but when people go after my kids, I just hit block-delete, block-delete. It’s my mantra.
I think you have to have really thick skin to be in politics – which I just lack. I think I’m just too nice!
High school was difficult for me because I was in the thick of dealing with my depression and anxiety.
I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl’s very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can’t they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
My generation was a special generation. I was born in 1960 and in my childhood we were all big manga consumers that was the culture. We were brought up in manga. Manga evolved around what was being made to cater to kids. All children at that time read ridiculously thick manga books every week.
I had a thick accent, and people didn’t understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn’t try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, ‘He’s racist!’
You have to have a thick skin, yes. If you’re going to do something as foolhardy as standup, you’ve got to be able to take it on the chin if someone has a go at you.
I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent.
As long as I can wear something that’s not too tight, I can move in it, it’s not too thick, and I can breathe, it’s great.
I have had every hair color. I joke with my hair colorist. She keeps sheets of paper on every hair color that I’ve had, so she has records of it all. She’s done my hair since I was 15, and I guess I have a thick folder going because I’ve had so many different hair colors.
That’s the great thing about ‘The West Wing:’ you really felt like you were in the thick of it.
In big battle scenes, like ‘King Arthur’, you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they’re not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you’ll find some poor little sod, who didn’t want to be there, anyway, with his head split.
I have inherited my father’s thick skin, which helps me deal with trolls.
Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
When I was in first grade, the kids called me ‘fatso.’ It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.
Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in.
Revelations come when you’re in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.
I use a toothbrush on my lips as a lip scrub; occasionally, I use a toothbrush with some dark eye shadow on my eye brows if I want to fill them in. And if I want a really thick, textured look with mascara, I put one on my lashes, as well.
By the time we woke up on Sundays, my dad would have left home to get mutton. It was a kind of stew with thick gravy that my mother used to make in a pressure cooker. Even after the mutton was over, the cooker would still have some masala left. I used to polish it off with some rice.
You don’t want to think too much of the past, you just want to focus on what’s coming up and the games coming thick and fast.
People think I’m thick because of the characters I play. I think I’m brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Later on in my life, it became a big theme: just being okay and comfortable to take the risk and to have really thick skin and realize not everybody is going to love your product. Get over it, and if you believe in it, keep going forward.
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
It’s amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.
Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
I’m, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it’s done.
The tobacco companies and snooker were as thick as thieves.
I never took my SAT’s. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I’m sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.
Research can be a boon to a novelist – there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of in a single writer’s philosophy – or it can become a hindrance, a thick layer of algae that weighs down the storytelling.
I have a look for everything I do. No matter what I do, I try to dress the part. In the garden, I’d wear vintage Levi’s, because they do a thick corduroy trouser and mine have got patches on them. So I’d wear them. And a tweed jacket. The full look.
I like cooking the biggest steaks. It cooks nice and evenly when it’s that thick, and you’re not eating the whole thing yourself, which is nice. You get to share that with a companion.
It’s so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.
I like to call myself numerically dyslexic, but officially, I am mathematically thick.
I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we’ve met a few times. I think he’s amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he’s made mistakes. He’s cool.
