Thin Quotes

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
Richard Pryor

Laugh, Between, Line

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.
Christina Aguilera

Both, Sides, Bigger

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
Toni Morrison

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock Ellis

Time, Revolution, Become

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
Fulton J. Sheen

Love, True, Cannot

Americans like fat books and thin women.
Russell Baker

Women, Fat, Books

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
Anne Lamott

Love, Busy, Everyone

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.
Anne Lamott

Great, Mother, Give

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.
Caroline Rhea

Happy, Yourself, Someone

Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.
Helena Bonham Carter

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
Jane Fonda

Good, Mother, Dieting

My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'
Katherine Jenkins

God, Thought, Remember

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
Richard Branson

Success, Business, Failure

You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.
Kate Moss

Food, Forget, Remember

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.
James Wolcott

Comedy, Hollywood, Skinny

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.
Arabella Weir

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Down, Distrust, Foot

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.
Leon Askin

Morning, Evening, Coffee

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.
Kate Moss

Someone, Free, Put

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.
Katherine Heigl

Good, Mother, Everybody

When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.
Katherine Heigl

Days, Sickness, Exhausted

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.
Emily Procter

Business, Important, Reality

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
Harlan Coben

Good, Evil, Game

I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?
Whitney Houston

Girl, Fat, Straight

I'd rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I'm proud of my body.
Holly Madison

Proud, Rather, Body

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy.
Jo Brand

Down, Old, Ugly

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden

Great, Sure, Madness

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.
Jennifer Lopez

Focus, Important, Long

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.
Margaret Cho

Wanted, Body, Permanent

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.
Kevin Smith

Society, Fun, Person

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