If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.
Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
I always blend my mascaras, since some are better at lengthening and others are better at thickening.
Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if. . . What if. . . ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.
Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.