Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on. — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance. — Alexander Siddig Copy Share Image
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. — William Penn Copy Share Image
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share Image
In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment. — Lee Myung-bak Copy Share Image
I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the… — David Mason Copy Share Image
Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
Every guarantee has an exception... More often than not, show surpasses tell in volume AND value. — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
“Something you never do, turn the volume down on Zeppelin or Skynyrd. .” ― Joe Mehl” — Joe Mehl Copy Share Image
The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered, — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
“The density of your destiny is the product of the mass of your visions and the volume your impacts occupy!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
