Famous quotes containing the words thin, facing and/or layer:
“Slim Woman,
all your ample parts
have become thin
and even the thin ones
have reached the limit
of thinness.
What’s the use of anger here?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods?”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“After a few months’ acquaintance with European “coffee,” one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)