Dense Quotes

156 quotes by 140 authors

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of… — Lynn Abbey
My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume. — Coco Chanel
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters. — Ross Macdonald
The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial… — Unknown Author
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have… — Andrew Jackson
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated… — Richard Foreman
Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority of… — Charles Galton Darwin
I was an infinitely hot and dense dot. — Mark Leyner
I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone… — Kate Klise
Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense… — Steven Johnson
Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman â€“ how dense! Confucius… — Zhuangzi
A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that… — John Edensor Littlewood
Imagine a dense forest full of tigers and you in a strong steel cage. Knowing that you are well protected by the cage, you watch… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you donâ€™t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject… — Diane Coyle
I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that… — Elizabeth Lesser
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and… — Salman Rushdie
Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense… — D. H. Lawrence
Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense… — D. H. Lawrence
With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album… — Bill Milkowski

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