Hundredweight Quotes

#1. Every hour that passes, another hundredweight of sand is poured in through a tiny hole in Landsman's soul. After his eyes are closed, what happens is never quite sleep, and the thoughts that plague him, though atrocious, are never quite dreams.

Michael Chabon

#2. This was a mouth that had suffered many slings and arrows along with the occasional thrashing and several hundredweight of tobacco and Cadbury's milk chocolate. This was a mouth through which a great deal of life had passed at, it would appear, an uncompromising speed.

Bill Buford

#3. The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.

Laurie R. King

#4. On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior.

W. Edwards Deming

#5. I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

Mitch Leigh

#6. Gold! I knew it! Just think of it, Queen. Six bags of gold!" trilled the King.
"What will you do with them, King dear?" asked the Queen.
"I won't do anything with them. I'll just have them and be rich.

Ruth Stiles Gannett

#7. Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.

Lewis Grizzard

#8. 'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.

James Gray

#9. When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

Richard E. Pattis

#10. If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

Ray Bradbury

#11. Lucky is where skill meets persistence.

Robin Sharma

#12. Its ok to be found naive. Not to remain naive.

Garrett McCoy

#13. Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

Stefan Molyneux

#14. To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Lane Allen