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“The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.”

“Momentum builds success.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.”

Knows Want Heart Death Turns Break Cost Stones Peaceful Fascinating Spells Snakes Ache Heart Love Thickness

Book:Dream Work

Source: Dream Work

“The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.”

People Ideas Earth House Interest Higher Meetings Raised Surface Spheres Reach Out Layers Roof Steeples Thickness

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.”

Doe Stories Painting Paint Oil Decades Obsession Painter Incomplete Thickness

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“Remember to negotiate thickness as well as height on the lettering of your name.”

Wells Remember Names Height Thickness

Author:Julia Phillips

“Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day, and then there were days when I would do three pages. Depends on the thickness of the material. If it's satisfying, it's hard, but it's pretty wonderful.”

Ifs Writing Kind Hard Three Wonderful Materials Hard Work Depends Pages Flow Meaningful Satisfying Thickness

Author:Steve Guttenberg

“The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.”

Color Legs Scales Relate Furniture Pipe Thickness

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.”

World Feels Mind Two Self Hands Sides Existence Middle Surface Divides Partition Foils Thickness

Book:The collected works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett

“The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.”

Men Should Two Wall Ease Sufficient Thickness

Book:The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

“Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.”

Matter Certain Fall Black Mountain Distance Forests Height Rising Sensations Summit Geometry Lofty Analogies Breadth Canyons Expanse Giddy Thickness

Author:Bob Marshall

“In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.”

Whole Values Cases Sensitive Colour Infinity Layers Intervals Separating Composites Thickness

Author:Gabriel Lippmann

“My socks DO match. They're the same thickness.”

Humor Funny Sock Thickness

Author:Steven Wright

“Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.”

Ifs Ideas Law Winning Numbers Millions Standards Dollars Bottom Contracts Good Ideas Conform Proposal Million Dollars Canyons Grand Canyon Thickness

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.”

Dream Goal Finding Yourself Momentum Thickness

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the trait of a single species. Rather than seeking to explain why polar bears have fur of a certain thickness, one tries to explain why bears in colder climates have thicker fur than bears in warmer climates. The former problem is hard to solve, since it is hard to say exactly what fur thickness polar bears should have if natural selection guided the evolution of that trait.”

“If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.”

People Ifs Want Trying Done Enough Able Approach Criticism Skins Endure Stakes Ads Status Quo Want To See You Thickness

Author:Susan Rice

“In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.”

Bits Opinion Events Series Thick Maximum Thickness

Book:Indiscretions of Archie

Source: Indiscretions of Archie

“Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can make you vomit. It can make you want to cut it out. It can take you over against your will.”

Want Sometimes Love Is Cutting Worst Cancer Bones Crush Earthquakes Terminal Thickness

Book:Quakeland

Source: Quakeland

“I think that you are the liar!" I say, my voice quaking. "You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the average person. And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness, that trust, that love is put to the test, it falls apart." I am crying now, but I am not ashamed of the tears shining on my cheeks or the thickness of my voice. "So you must have lied when you told me all those things... you must have, because I can't believe your love is really that feeble.”

“Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.”

Ifs Knows Feelings Dream Wanted Left Know How Needed Lays Distance Awakening Significant Snow Welcome Destination Giver Thickness

Book:The Giver

Source: The Giver

“I don’t want to love you,” I forced out through the thickness in my throat. “God, I hope you do, because you own me completely,” he whispered.”

Want Love You Throat Thickness

Book:Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts

Source: Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts

“The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.”

Years Kind May Said Stills Seems Lasts Dies Grows Born Grief Written Tree Spread Rings Tricks Relax Grain Last Year Leafs Castles Bud Like Something Born Again Thickness Thresh

Book:Poesía reunida

Source: Poesía reunida

“We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.”

Ifs Long Play Kids Moving Night Rooms Our Lives Paper Mad Tired Bored Clue Sandman Just Kids Thickness

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.”

Differences Business Wall Taxes Prison Avoidance Income Tax Evasion Thickness Prison Walls Tax Evasion

Author:Denis Healey

“Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise, and orderly arranged, after the manner of the copper or tin worms, which distillers use to cool their liquors as they distil over. The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one's head. ... all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]”

“The 4th sort of creatures... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that I judged, that if 100 of them lay [stretched out] one by another, they would not equal the length of a grain of course Sand; and according to this estimate, ten hundred thousand of them could not equal the dimensions of a grain of such course Sand. There was discover'd by me a fifth sort, which had near the thickness of the former, but they were almost twice as long. The first time bacteria were observed.”

Ifs Firsts Long Eye Science Courses Thousand Ten Creatures Equal Hundred First Time Moved Lays Former Dimensions Sand Length Judged Grain Fifth Bacteria Thickness

Author:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

“The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.”

“I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.”

Made Stills Ideas Wanted Sound Dad Guitar My Dad Edges Fireplaces Thickness

Author:Brian May

“Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.”

Source: The 48 Laws Of Power

“As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.”

Writing Enough Next Influence Skins Average Reviews Disappointed Penetrate Thickness

Author:Rachel Cusk

“Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.”

Men Real Body Lines Existence Depth Surface Conception Entity Thickness

Book:Works

Source: Works

“If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.”

Ifs I Can Values Produce Critical Explosions Thickness

Author:Leo Szilard

“I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.”

Knows Men Years Has Beens Alive Terrible Years Ago Stones Doctors Blow Clubs Wide Iron Thick Inches Splits Coal Pins Foreheads Skulls Cracked I'm Alive Thickness

Author:George Devol

“Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.”

Knows Looks Stills Hands Listening Sitting Skins Eleanor Thickness

Author:Hillary Clinton

“While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.”

“Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.”

Knows Needs Giving Looks Alive Hair Healthy Aim Patient Nurse Thickness

Book:Before I Die

Source: Before I Die

“Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.”

Models Skinny Chicks Thickness

Author:Nas

“Don't judge a book by its thickness either.”

Book Judging Umpires Thickness

Author:Craig Reucassel

“When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.”

Littles House Air Car Wall Grew Ten Summer Grew Up Winter Inches Conditioning Air Conditioning Old Car Thickness

Author:Merle Haggard