The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter. — Zero Mostel Copy Share Image
Many people know that Shakespeare's dramatic 'canon' was established in 1623 by the publication of the so-called First Folio. That hefty volume… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick.… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In the last volume of In Search of Lost Time, Proust compares himself to Scheherazade: he says he has finally understood the… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard. Donald [Trump] supported the invasion of Iraq. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
