Paperweight Quotes

#1. The pills I take are a paperweight. All they do is pin the fantasies down. But they're still there, and any strong wind that comes along, I can feel them rattling around, trying to slip free.

Joe Hill

#2. I am not a fool. This is why Olga was so distraught - because I teetered the line, and most times my left foot was a paperweight clinging to hell.

Rebekah Armusik

#3. He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars.

Nalini Singh

#4. He was like a paperweight, but less mobile.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#5. For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Donald Hall

#6. Computers are good, but only while they are working. Otherwise, they are no more use than a paperweight

Farahad Zama

#7. The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

George Orwell

#8. This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

Lemony Snicket

#9. You get a promotion?"
"I got a polite, but firm suggestion to be a team player. [ ... ]"
"You got off easy. One of my commanding officers once threw a paperweight at me."
"We're a bit more subtle.

Nelson DeMille

#10. Stormgren had walked to his desk and was fidgeting with his famous uranium paperweight. He was not nervous - merely undecided.

Arthur C. Clarke

#11. Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: It won't allow you to fly.

Rajneesh

#12. I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

Ray Bradbury

#13. One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

Marisha Pessl

#14. When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.

Hod Lipson

#15. He looked at her with his green don't-lie-to-me-woman eyes and Scarlet dropped her guilty gaze to the mahogany desktop, searching around until she found a paperweight shaped like a pyramid to stare at.

Chelsea Fine

#16. I didn't answer the naked hunger in his eyes.

Jamie Wyman

#17. The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

George W. Bush

#18. Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

Joseph Silk

#19. I remember just sitting down one day and going, 'I should have friends.' And then I developed a sense of humour. By the end of high school, I would say I was the most popular girl.

Rebel Wilson

#20. When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

Julia Cameron

#21. Johns, what the fuck are you doing?" Digger called. "You don't chat with ghosts, you fucking run like Scooby-Doo, man!"
"It's okay," Owen told them.
"Scooby-Doo!"
"Not okay," Nick cried.

Abigail Roux

#22. When you feel a snake slither down your spine and your nipples are itchy, when your armpits tingle and your mouth is dry when you see him, that's first love.

Chloe Thurlow

#23. To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player ... The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Marianne Williamson

#24. Tomorrow will be better. A new day always is. Mistakes vanish. Tears dry. Tomorrow will be better. A new day makes sure of it. .............................

Pepper Winters

#25. It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

Mark Wahlberg

#26. When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth."
"You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around ... him. It makes total sense.

Rick Riordan