And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
As the fat man gets thinner, the thin one is already dead.
I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.
A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of...
The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.
The world is thinner in some places.
I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.
Concealers are like undergarments. They make you feel taller and thinner.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Success is suffocating. The air is thinner at the top.
It's true as a woman, particularly: the older you get, the parts get thinner on the ground and not quite as interesting, that's for sure.
Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.
I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...
But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.
The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge.
I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.
The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.
