We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God… — Gene Edwards Copy Share Image
When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing… — Odette Annable Copy Share Image
Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These… — Josiah Bartlett Copy Share Image
Regarding the mantra..."There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux… — Steve Shaw Copy Share Image
“You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The internet doesn't have any qualities, technical qualities. It's just fast, reaching out everywhere and so, it can process that and that… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
You and I won't ever find ourselves on that cross, but we repeatedly find ourselves at the foot of it. And how… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator… — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
What would you call America's most priceless asset? Surely not its limitless natural resources, not its matchless national wealth, not its unequalled… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25… — Matthew Simmons Copy Share Image
Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
People seem weak, but they’re strong. They seem strong, but they’re weak. No matter how much you cry, you still have to… — Fuyumi Soryo Copy Share Image
Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
So when your mom walks in, turn down the volume and act like you're doing your homework. — Willie D Copy Share Image
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My hair dries straight naturally, so I'm always trying to find anything to give it volume or give it a little bit… — Laura Enever Copy Share Image
You can see that there is an increase in the volume of freight that moves by air. And so, we have got… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its… — Eve Best Copy Share Image
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
“The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Players will be able to adjust the volume from 1 to 100 in increments of 1. You could play the game 100… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
You look different. You look unsettling.’ ‘You look like you,’ he said. ‘You with the volume turned up. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you. — Susan Wallace Copy Share Image
