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One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.
— John Andrew Rice
Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.
— Joseph Smith Jr.
I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.
— Landon Donovan
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Dangerous knowledge is often hidden under ponderous grammar and obscurantist vocabulary.
— Brent Weeks
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
— Anne Lamott
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.
— Reginald Heber
Nothing is more likely to drive listeners away than a ponderous interpretation of what they've just marvelled at.
— Philip Pullman
The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.
— Cormac McCarthy
The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.
— Robert Aris Willmott
What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.
— Henry Fuseli
I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Every storm runs out of rain.
— Gary Allan
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
— Adam Smith
Blue loved this ponderous, scholarly Gansey, too involved with facts to consider how he appeared on the outside.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.
— Andrew Thomas
The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.
— Sidney Lanier
A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.
— Roger Chamberlain
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!
— Mark Twain
The fantasy of justice is more interesting than the fantasy of fairies, and truly more fantastic.
— Terry Pratchett
I am sure my love's more ponderous than my tongue.
— William Shakespeare
These dons, so ponderous, so circuitous, , no sense of time. In a minute they'll be talking about the meaning of meaning.
— John Le Carre
She merely beamed a fatty beam. She was almost ponderous, and pink, with a tendency to a double chin.
— Theodore Dreiser
Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.
— Mason Cooley
