Quotes with tissue-paper-thin

Quotes 101 till 120 of 160.

  • Alfred Kazin One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
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  • Helene Deutsch Only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.
    Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue (1973)
    Helene Deutsch
    Polish-American psychoanalyst (1884 - 1982)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Dr. Walter Smith Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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  • Bob Ross People have success with this method and it gets them excited. It gets them hooked. You can put layers of thick paint on thin paint and that allows you to complete a painting in one sitting.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Karl Kraus Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Pope Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Billy Rose Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.
    Its Only a Paper Moon (1933)
    Billy Rose
    Canadian curler (1899 - 1966)
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Alan Thicke 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.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke 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.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Mark Twain Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The ''paper tiger'' hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Brendan Behan The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Bob Monkhouse The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.
    Independent on Sunday obituary
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Augustus William Hare The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Joan Didion The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Amelia Earhart The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Cyril Connolly The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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