Thick Quotations | Page 3

I've had to have thick skin since I was real little. ... Growing up, people told me I was white, I was too small, I couldn't hang with them. I had to have thick skin and brush them off and prove them wrong. That's the same thing I've got to do here.

It's very peculiar; I've never seen anything like it. It couldn't have been very thick to go out this easily. Once it freezes solidly, it usually stays around.

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

It was hard to move on from the Duke game, but we stuck together through thick and thin. We've tried to put the past behind us and move on, but for some reason we always seem to get the bad end of the stick.

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout.

It's really category-creation mode this year. The first examples are going to be out there; they're not going to fulfill the vision of being an inch thick or under a pound or all-day battery; that will be over time.

At the next level, at Western Mass. and state tournaments, they'll be fine, ... They've played in front of 4,000 people. This is something these guys will never forget. They stuck together through thick and thin. That's not easy when you're 14. They were a real team.

That's all good theory and rhetoric but this real-life circumstance here, it's green, it's thick and good to have and I'm not shifting.

The fans have been through thick and thin with me, and it's nice to play decent golf for them,

The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now there are lots of positives.

I'm glad how the kids responded and came to the ballpark today ready to play. It was a solid effort on our part to play a first-place team and keep us in the thick of the race.

In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.

I'm having to accept the fact that I'm going to have a brown golf course instead of a green golf course. It's hard for me not to see it thick and green. I'm having to teach myself that brown is OK, but not on the greens.

I like the way we're playing right now. We're just falling short in some situations. But we're right there in the thick of things until the end. That's showing maturity.

I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prínce but Jordan is known as that thick girl who always falls out of clubs drunk. I know which one I prefer.

In some places, they're so thick you can't step without killing tons of them.

I now look back fondly at those being the most constructive years for preparing me for life in the real world, ... You have to have pretty thick skin and you have to have big shoulders.

I really feel in all aspects of the game that we can compete with anybody. We have some strong weapons to compete. We could be right in the thick of things (in the SOC).

I prefer a dart that's long and has a thick shaft. That's just the way I like it.

Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use.

I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.

He wouldn't let me do that if he'd have died I'd have died with him, he stuck there with me thick and thin, no matter what he was there he was determined to get me out of there he was not going to leave me behind.

Choose friends who will stick to you till the end, through thick and thin.

Hey, you've got to have a thick skin. You've got to take negativity for what it is. You've got to keep working, keep pushing.

I always thought I was really thick.

It is written in my life-blood, such that it is, thick or thin; and I can no other.

I doubt he ever saw that sign at Bishop England. But he's in the fire. He's a tough kid. He's got thick skin, and he's ready for this type of environment and did a nice job.

I'd love to be in the thick of a playoff race right now -- and the chances are very slim for us now -- but the mathematical chance is still there. Either way, you use this time to prepare for next season, to find something out about people.

I believe every woman's body is beautiful in its own way. I have never understood that just because a woman has thick thighs, she is considered fat. For so long, I've been around in the modeling world and have tried to break that barrier. But I think now it's turning around.

Gosh, he's got thick antlers and a lot of points

There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!

How thick can you get?

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things.

I'm as thick as a plank.

Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

The injury is healing pretty well... My ankle looks fairly thick still, but that is decreasing as well.

The road to hell is thick with taxicabs

The Da Jing street market is little more than a few narrow intersections, barely six blocks long. But for a visitor, it is a living, breathing education in Shanghai cuisine, a style distinguished by its thick savory sauces spiked with sugar and soy sauce.

The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.

The fog is going to remain on the thick side until about 9 a.m. today and after 9 a.m., the fog will lift and it will form some low clouds that will block the sunshine for a good portion of the morning. So, kind of a dreary start to our day.

The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.

All you can base things off of is how the previous season ended. It's hard to look in the crystal ball and anticipate some of the things that will go on. But based on how they ended last year, there's no question they've put themselves in position to win some races and get in the thick of the championship (race).

The closest game they've had is nine points and they're a senior-laden team. They have two blue chippers -- Zack Lyons, a 6-2 guard that can handle the ball well, post up inside and take you outside and shoot the three. Jay Meyers was the quarterback on their tradition-rich football team. He's 5-11, thick and can score inside and out.

An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.

All the injuries that we went through, not too many teams could stay together the way we did. Our team could have easily fell apart but Coach Sherman kept a positive attitude. We stayed together through thick and thin. It was rough. We're watching players go down one after another but we continued to battle.

And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

The main problem was qualifying first and second, which produced relatively poor grid positions and put Mark in the thick of the problems at the first corner, ... Antonio did an excellent job at short notice.

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.

A thick hide is a gift from God.

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it....

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places

Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin she followed him

Some (demons) are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds

Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel

We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.

He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! . . . And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!

Don't get buried in the thick of thin things.