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.)
“Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there’s a layer of people who run everything. But we—we’re just peasants. We don’t understand what’s going on, and we can’t do anything.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)