You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.
The wind crooned softly as it dusted the snow against the windows, wrapping them in a thick and fluffy cotton blanket.
It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.
An intelligent man will use a book to settle an argument. Preferably a hardback with a thick spine, flat across the bridge of the nose.
A thick, intense fog was rolling in from the ocean, which created long, strange shadows to form like creatures of their own kind.
I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know - teachers loved me, straight-A student.
When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won’t take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
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.
Having red hair is never good when you're a kid. I was picked on a lot and didn't have a lot of friends. But I think that gave me a thick skin and helped make me a better person.
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.
Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.
I smell freedom, it smells like slow heavy rain drops hitting the warm, thick detached red dust of a busy unpaved road.
Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants. Pull the concubine out of the clergyman`s bed. Monarch`s blood must flow, as thick as our boots. From there the free republic will rise.
I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.
Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.
Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
