Weighty Books Quotes

#1. Many weighty books on magic that looked as if they had been bound in human skin at the beginning of time but had probably been mass-produced last week by a factory in Catford.

Jonathan Stroud

#2. The house was still, weighty with the comfort of a thousand books.

Laurie R. King

#3. You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you ...

S.E. Hinton

#4. My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

Katy Perry

#5. I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were reality. I hadn't made up my own mind about my own life, a vague, dreamy affair, amorphous and dimly perceived, without beginning or end.

Frank Conroy

#6. Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. My proctologist keeps in better touch than you do.
- Knox

Dannika Dark

#8. The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.

Jessica Savitch

#9. I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's way like this.

Alison Bechdel

#10. The moonlight was enough. It would do.

Neil Gaiman

#11. What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin

#12. Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

Larry Coryell

#13. Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

Bainbridge Colby

#14. My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.

Donald Knuth

#15. Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.

Malcolm Forbes

#16. Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity..

Ray Romano