I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive.
You have all these glossy magazines which are read by young girls, who then go on a diet and try to be thin to emulate the models they see.
I am very grateful that I have a husband that doesn’t find looking too thin attractive. Phew!
The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.
When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don’t eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you’ll be thin for life.
When you’re feeling overtired and stretched too thin, it may seem incomprehensible to squeeze in a little ‘me time.’ But, the times when you feel like you can’t possibly spare a minute for yourself, are likely the times when you need ‘me time’ the most.
I am not endorsing being thin; I am endorsing being your fittest self.
There is a thin difference between confidence and ego.
Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid’s thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.
Mmmm… the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It’s a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, ‘You had to be there.’
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.
Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.
I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other: ‘That one has great thighs, this one’s gained weight, who’s thin, who’s fat, how do I compare?’
Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
My favourite type of pizza is a Napoletana: tomatoes, mozzarella, and very few anchovies. It must have a thin base.
In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper’s bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father’s life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.
Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.
The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.
I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 – the area code, not the band – Mile High, until I die. I’m 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don’t glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep.
I like quoting ‘Lord of the Rings’: ‘My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies grows long!’
There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.
Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
People expect me to be thin and perfect… I’m not.
If the only reason to be on stage communicating with people is to tell them a joke and make them laugh, that seems thin for me. That has a place – I don’t think it should stop happening – but for me, I don’t know. I just don’t.
A lot of women think being thin is the way to go, but I prefer to have some meat on my bones.
I’m not thin, but I’m strong – plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.
