#thick

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. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#concentrated #edible #enables #evoke #food

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#be true #cannot #flattery #laid #love

In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#country #evenings #grass #grew #high

A thick skin is a gift from God. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#god #skin #thick #thick skin

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart. ↗

— Dan Savage

#i #skin #thick #thick skin

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#clothes #figure #i #out #thick

I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#body #clothes #first #first time #had

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. ↗

— John Clayton

#only #paper #such #surface #thickness

Don't judge a book by its thickness either. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#either #judge #thickness

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#anything #car #cooler #grew #had