For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is… — Reginald Aldworth Daly Copy Share Image
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing;… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and… — David J. Skorton Copy Share Image
Alaska is just such an incredibly beautiful place. Of any place that I have ever been to, it speaks such high volumes… — Alan Robertson Copy Share Image
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
My goal is not to eliminate jobs but to secure jobs by increasing production volume. — Martin Winterkorn Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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