Thick Quotes

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

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.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.