I don’t think I’m severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it’s bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.
The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: ‘Buy me! I’m going to save your life! I’m going to make you thin!’ When you come to that POM bottle, it’s like an oasis of calm.
Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you’d never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper – something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season – and so memories stir and startle.
I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it’s so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It’s not like everybody is the same.
I am naturally a thin person and I am 5’1″ and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.
Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page – a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things.
The real deal is when you are friends with someone said since ninth standard or college days: the person who has been with you through your struggle and stayed with you through thick and thin.
I really didn’t get obsessed with Bowie until my freshman year in high school. I remember listening to ‘Starman’ and thinking it sounded like it was a song for kids, like a lullaby. The Thin White Duke is my favorite look that he created.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Anytime I have an idea, I’ll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don’t have to dream it all out of thin air. I don’t have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.
I do not like admitting that the Internet gets to me but I felt maybe it would be beneficial to acknowledge it, and again, just be mindful when you’re out there or even when you see a friend and you want to first comment on their appearance, like, ‘Ooh, you’re looking a little thin,’ or whatever you wanna say.
Being an actress has the same requirements as being an actor, but it needs more. Fair, reed thin, tall, can lip-synch, can dance, can fight, ideally can act, has to be single all her life and most importantly, needs to be PG18 bracket.
In school, I was always a fat girl. No matter how thin you are, but girls always have this thing in mind that I am a little fat.
To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to spread yourself too thin and lose sight of your goal.
Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.
So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers’ advice and from the counselors around.
Penelope Fitzgerald’s nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You’d be holding an eclectic bunch.
As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn’t know that I was skinny.
I think that most people would associate big schools of fish with healthy coral reefs. At Kingman, the predators keep the herd thin, so there aren’t a lot of big fish schools.
It’s a normal part of the culture of ballet to go to a nutritionist in your first few weeks. They write down everything you eat and use a little roller that pinches you to measure the fat all over your body. Then, every semester, you get a letter saying either you’re too thin, or you’re OK, or you’re overweight.
It’s almost like an optical illusion, ‘The Hobbit.’ You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.
I think there’s a thin line between pathos and comedy, and I’m not afraid of putting my heart on my sleeve.
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it’s fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.
Some people are naturally thin, and some are heavier. There is a lot of focus on it, and it can be a lot of pressure for people. But honestly, I think as long as someone is healthy, that is most important.
I can’t spread myself too thin.
When I was at school, you could tell the demography of children by how thin they were. You could see by looking at their eyes.
I’m as strong and supple as a pane of thin glass. I’ve got too many ailments – left shoulder, left elbow and left wrist – in fact, the whole of the left arm.
Donald Trump believes in conspiracies. He has thin skin and is impulsive.
I find there’s a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
I wouldn’t want to go into mainstream, Downing Street politics, though – it’s just too cut-throat. I’ve got quite thin skin.
There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea.
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
Being married to Andy has given me a new appreciation for my body. He’s taught me that it’s not how thin you are that matters. It’s how your body performs, how it endures wear and tear.
I’ve always been naturally thin.
Politicians wage broad wars on medicine to claim thin strips of ideological terrain. This would be good political theater if there weren’t so many human victims.
I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.
There are only certain kinds of people who are shown falling in love. It’s by and large always heterosexual, it is either thin or fair people. It’s not like that in the real world.
Commercial banks – that is, fractional reserve banks – create money out of thin air. Essentially, they do it in the same way as counterfeiters.
What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?
I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It’s so bloody tedious; I’m losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.
I think it’s so important to be healthy and confident and natural. And not put too much stress on trying to be thin – I don’t get the thin, thin thing at all.
For female wrestlers, it’s always such a thin line, because every sport has its age limits, but when it comes to women, we seem to reach those age limits more quickly.
My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small… my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don’t want people to see how thin they are.
Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.
There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
But I always curl my lashes, even if I don’t put on mascara. I’ll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows – I’m just now starting to thin them out a bit.
In school, I would always be uncomfortable because my skirt would expose my thin, chicken legs and wiry hands.
I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don’t like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.
But I really have no desire to get thin; 175 is my normal weight.
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
