Heavy Quotes

All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss.

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

Whenever I pick up a jacket and it's heavy, I think, 'Oh, I don't want to wear that.'

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press, I've been both. It's impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

When those nerf footballs get wet though then they actually do get heavy.

Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.

Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

It's a completely reasonable diet -- heavy on fruits and vegetables and fresh, seasonal foods. I'm totally for it. It's common sense in a nice package.

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

People with heavy physical vibrations rule the world.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was mainly into heavy metal and grunge.

A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.

My mom said the term heavy petting existed a lot when she was in high school.

Heavy is the root of light.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.

Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.

We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get to a point where all this is too heavy for the world to handle?

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.