Thin Quotes

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.

I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

Hope is a very thin diet.

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.

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.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

I've always been naturally thin.

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.

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.