Jimi Hendrix
Musician, Guitarist
"When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man."
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Heavy
172 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
August Wilson
Playwright, Screenwriter
"Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up."
Cary Grant
Actor
"The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting."
Russell Baker
Writer
"You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart."
George A. Romero
Filmmaker
"Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it."
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"The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it"
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"Nothing's more attractive than a heavy praying woman."
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"God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful."
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"Fame is a heavy burden."
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"If only the good were a little less heavy-footed"
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"I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed."
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"We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really"
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"The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above."
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"I find that the people who don't eat as much candy are really into heavy protein, like steak. I don't eat that."
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"The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss."
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"When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor."
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"What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!"
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"We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that."
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"You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it."
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"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
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"I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago."
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"It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads."
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"Hold your head high heavy heart."
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"Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting."
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"I try to do something physical every day. I don't go heavy every day, though."
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