Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
I don’t think thin brows will make a comeback; women have finally seen how much more beautiful their look can be with a properly shaped eyebrow.
I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin.
But there’s a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It’s not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.
I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
It’s like I’m thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.
I’m never doing anything by rote. I’m only on thin ice, and I think that that’s a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
I was never obese, but I felt ‘less than’ because I wasn’t as thin as other actresses. I totally fell for that low-fat craze. My goal was to be X jeans size or a specific number on the scale.
Pretty people aren’t as accepted as other people. It’s like, ‘She’s pretty and thin and she’s got to have problems. She’s messed up.’
I put my son’s nutritional needs first, and existed on pasta and thin air more times than I would dare to admit.
People equate health to a picture in a magazine of a 6-foot-tall thin woman with her skin rolls Photoshopped and her waist edited to be tiny, so when they see bodies that jiggle and move around like they do, they assume it’s wrong.
I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone’s advantage.
A lot of people body shame me because I am very thin. They say I have a ‘boy’s body,’ or that I look like a skeleton or like a runaway patient. People can never be happy, so you just have to be happy with your body and how you are.
There are people that regardless of what it is, if it’s something that’s stressful, whatever it may be, they don’t eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I’m the opposite.
I think it’s natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I’m in the studio and I write something, I think it’s the greatest thing in the world; it’s like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It’s the biggest thrill in my life.
Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.
I think women think I’m inspirational because I’m unapologetic. I have cellulite. I have back fat. I’ve got a thick stomach. But I work my body like I don’t because I don’t know any other body. I don’t know how to feel thin. I just know how to feel like Ashley.
From Kevyn Aucoin, I learned about the power of eyebrows. He was an eyebrow freak, and rightly so because there’s nothing in your face that changes you more. You can quite visibly lift your eye with a higher-placed eyebrow, or if you thicken or thin it.
I started the whole ‘Into Thin Air’ thing – nothing I’m proud of.
Occupy Wall Street didn’t just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.
I don’t believe you just create a character out of thin air, there’s always something of yourself you bring.
There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war or a natural disaster or an epidemic like we’re going through right now, the worst comes out in each of us.
It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.
Not only was I not a good dancer, I was one of the worst. I didn’t have the long thin legs, and I didn’t have natural turnout. The only thing I had was determination.
I started playing cricket with my brother in our back garden when I was eight. The garden was long and thin, so it was perfect for us to play cricket in. We’d use a crate as the wicket. We broke quite a few windows.
Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.
I should have got thin, but I eat too much. I hate the word ‘moderation.’
It’s really irrelevant, but I wouldn’t want to be stick thin. It’s better to have bit of fat on your face when you get older.
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
It’s a reality that in this business there’s an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it’s more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that’s just going to have to wait.
Here we are, worrying about whether we’re thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat – does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?
When I was a boy, I was really thin, small, long-haired. I always looked young. People thought, ‘He can’t play football.’ I used that to my advantage.
I’ve just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn’t get his good, thick hair. I got my mother’s thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.
Hope is a very thin diet.
I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.
I want to be helpful to the charities I support. I think you can dilute it, the more you do. You have to be a bit strong about what you do… otherwise, you risk spreading yourself a bit thin, and you can be less useful.
There are thin girls with infertility issues, normal sized girls with infertility issues and overweight girls with infertility issues. Unless your doctor tells you your weight is affecting you in some way… once the doctor rules it out, that’s really not it.
If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you’ve got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.
When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.
The key is to hit the ball first, then the sand. Even if you catch it a bit thin, you’ll still get plenty of run. Hitting it fat is what you want to avoid.
There’s a thin line between narcissism, even if it’s a healthy narcissism, and entertainment.
My mother used to tell me, ‘I’m fake thin, but don’t tell anyone.’ I think part of her reputation for dieting too much was to do with her upper body and thoracic cage being thinner than average, thus her thin waist.
I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
I have huge admiration for Taylor Swift. She’s tall, talented, young, thin, and beautiful. More importantly, she seems focused, generous, vulnerable, and kind.
I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you’re going to make a difference or change anything, you’re on pretty dangerous thin ice.
Sometimes if you’re wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut.
It’s absolutely disgusting how these reality stars think they can get fat and then thin quickly for money.
We have a thin candy shell, I’m surprised you didn’t know that.
It’s interesting because we live in a country where the obesity is so enormous. And then the reflection on the runways is girls that are so thin. So there’s two extremes that are almost like a reflection of themselves, and it’s very hard to be in the middle with girls that are just healthy.
There are a lot of people out there who are just bullies. They constantly keep telling you that you are too fat, too thin, your teeth are not fine, you can’t speak English really well, and you are too short, etc.
People often confuse self-respect with arrogance. I believe that there is a very thin line between the two. Balance between the two is often what leads to happiness.
I don’t like to use the words ‘real women,’ honestly. I like to use the word ‘woman.’ And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.
The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or ’74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn’t really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.
In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
I never lived in the era when thin eyebrows were in so I never did that.
I find it hard to believe that Senators or the American public will classify Sotomayor as unqualified, particularly given the thin credentials of many of our eighteenth and nineteenth century Supreme Court Justices.
