There’s a thin line between mockery and endorsement.
Depression is rage spread thin.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
I think that’s just part of what people do and part of being a female in the media. One day it’s, ‘Doesn’t she look thin,’ then the next day, ‘She’s put on weight.’
I enjoy stories about thin women – I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.
I was never thin enough to be a proper model and not big enough to be plus-size.
When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn’t care how thick or thin it was, and I didn’t actually care what it was about.
I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls.
I probably had the most fun ever in the ring with Christian. And it was because he could just pick stuff up out of thin air and make it something. Neither of us were these big high-fliers; none of us were power guys doing these big, crazy moves. But the finesse and the things were smooth with me and him.
I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I’ll never be thin. Let’s be honest.
I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.
The fact that these fans don’t understand that a ring is comprised of steel, metal beams, wood, and a thin sheet mat, and that’s it.
A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.
I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that’s put into your head. You are never thin enough.
I am from Jaipur where ‘Ramlila’ is a common theatre act. Though I was a thin, lanky fellow, I was always offered the role of Hanuman.
I don’t have perfect teeth, I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.
Gas prices and train fares seem to be the two commodities for modern British life that base their prices on a whim, or numbers plucked out of thin air, without a thought to the real cost to those for whom those price hikes mean unimaginable sacrifices in their day to day lives.
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.
The mythos of superheroes is our mythos today. They are American myths. ‘Captain America,’ ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Hulk’ – these are the biggest movies in the world. But sometimes, superhero movies can be a little bit thin.
When I see images of a girl who is obviously far too thin, I am just as shocked as anyone else.
I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.
I’m naturally thin, so I don’t have to work too hard at it. I love food, but I also love to work out. I think it makes everything work better.
I’m not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.
There’s a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They’re close cousins.
The new critique you’re gonna start hearing about James Franco, is ‘He’s spreading himself too thin.’
When women are stressed, they either eat too much and get fat, or they eat not so much and get thin, and the latter is what happens to me.
I’ve been in the entertainment industry – wresting, but the entertainment industry since 1989; if you have thin skin, you’re going to have a tough time in this town, but I’ve got thick skin.
A five-pound boneless rolled-and-tied breast of veal, like any other piece of meat fit for braising, can come in many shapes and sizes. So recipe times aren’t uniformly applicable. A long and thin tied roast will cook more quickly than its stouter, football-shaped cousin.
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.
Nothing like mashed potatoes when you’re feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.
Style icons feel like they have to be so thin, and when I see somebody with a fuller figure like Scarlet Johansson, who is sexy and happy, I find it such a relief.
I think the culture of the red carpet is too much like a modern-day coliseum. If you’re being photographed all the time, and you don’t like having a bad photograph taken, and if you’re super, super thin, chances are you’re never going to look fat in a picture.
I don’t care what color you are, what size you are, where you’re from. It is disturbing that there’s an idea that only tall, thin, willowy, size 0 women are attractive – even for the tall, thin, willowy, size 0 woman! We all should get to feel like there’s something powerful and beautiful about who we are.
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
I think living in a way that’s close to nature makes you feel like that – makes you feel how thin the veil is between life and death.
As long as you can throw people a curveball, that’s what you’re looking for. Because the minute they can define you, the minute they think they know exactly who you are, is when it starts to wear thin.
Playing fast and aggressive poker can help manufacture chips out of thin air and is one element of the game that separates the great players from the merely very good. But beware; it can be risky.
When you’re not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.
‘Pretty’ is most often synonymous with being thin, white, able-bodied, and cis, and the closer you are to those ideals, the more often you will be labeled pretty – and benefit from that prettiness.
By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there’s probably a stereotype where all pretty girls think they’re unattractive, but modeling is the worst thing for your self-esteem, because you’re never pretty enough, you’re never thin enough.
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in ‘The Mexican’, but people don’t take to skinny mafia men, and I don’t feel right when I’m thin.
My hair is naturally blond and thin, so I like to give it some texture. Sexy, dirty bedhead is good for blonds.
The cat eye is one of my favorites to rock because you can do so much with it from a thicker, bold look to the thin, simple black line. I sometimes even step it up a notch by adding colored liner or glitter to keep it fun and unique!
There is a very thin line between relationship and friendship.
There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience – it has to be earned along the way.
I have thin skin, so I have to work on my cellulite by exercising.
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.
Surprisingly, Manhattan casts a sort of undersized shadow onto Long Island. Where I grew up, everyone seemed totally disconnected from the city – ours could have been any suburb, anywhere – though when traffic was thin, it took us only half an hour to get into midtown.
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It’s a really great problem to have.
If I do something, I commit. Otherwise you spread yourself too thin.
If I spread myself too thin, I’m not a good actor, I’m not a good mother, and I’m just really high-strung – and everybody hates me.
You’re damned if you’re too thin and you’re damned if you’re too heavy. According to the press I’ve been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.
I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco’s Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn’t want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.
I’ve been on ‘Days’ since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.
My daughters related to something in the Spice Girls that made them feel better about being female. They truly started to believe girls could do anything. They could be fat, thin, anything they wanted to be.
