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Quotes About Leaden

His imprecision and laziness maddened my compulsive instincts—his patchiness, the way even his speech was riddled with drop-outs and glitches like a worn cassette, the way his leaden senses refused the world
~ Jonathan Lethem
Fear is leaden. Courage is golden. Let go of the weight of the world, and you will fly.
~ Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker
I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
~ John Milius
I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten 'em.
~ belloc hilaire iii
And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?
~ Thomas Wolfe
Black are the horses.The horseshoes are black.On the dark capes glistenstains of ink and of wax.Their skulls are leaden,which is why they don't weep.With their patent leather soulsthey come down the street.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...
~ Terry Pratchett
And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?
~ Thomas Wolfe
If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.
~ la bruyere jean de iv