A Quote by Robert Aris Willmott

The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Robert Aris Willmott

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Robert Aris Willmott
English - Author
1809 - 1863

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor. The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. Odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves, the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold.

Robert Aris Willmott

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

Felix Adler

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.

Napoleon Hill

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

Jess Walter

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

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her.

Solomon

Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.

William Cowper

My view is that everything begins with the customer. If you know the customer, then you can match the merchandise and then you can market it. The marketing is kind of the icing. The foundation is the cake. That's the merchandise. Then the question is, "Do the customers want cake, or do they want cupcakes or donuts. What is it?"

Les Wexner

We seem to want one vehicle to carry people and soccer balls and hay bales.

Franz von Holzhausen

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

Edward Young

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

Albert Einstein

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

George Santayana

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

Toby Young

In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has never been my strong suit, so I actually had to be somewhat more "organized and results-driven" than is my habit. I just made up my mind that I was going to have to read some of these philosophy tomes, and I forced myself to read something like 10 pages a day until I had bashed my way through them.

Neal Stephenson

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.

John Lithgow

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