Heft Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands. — John Updike
It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of… — H. L. Mencken
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences… — R. Buckminster Fuller
An attitude will give you heft. — Carl Reiner
A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject. — William Safire
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. — Simon Armitage
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoonsâ€” That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunesâ€” Heavenly Hurt, it gives usâ€” We can find no… — Emily Dickinson
There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards… — Terry Pratchett
The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease… — Emily Dickinson
Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood… — Margaret Mitchell
From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by… — Rita Dove
Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me,… — Gary Krist
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other… — Richard K. Morgan

Who Wrote These Heft Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 Heft Quotes as follows: