Dense Quotes
156 quotes by 140 authors
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We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.
— Ray Davies
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It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of patterns.…
— Christopher Alexander
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War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of…
— H.G. Wells
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Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.
— Gale Norton
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Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was…
— Mark Twain
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The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever…
— John Muir
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In TV, you can really get into not only great characters, but also the relationships. There are all of the backstories and all of the…
— Chris Pratt
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Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is…
— William Walsh
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The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is…
— William Morley Punshon
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Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital…
— Hartley Coleridge
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen.…
— Gail Collins
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A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't…
— James Hetfield
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My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public…
— Michael Moore
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I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.
— Haruki Murakami
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That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of…
— Haruki Murakami
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Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the…
— Michel Foucault
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Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.
— Marina Tsvetaeva
Who Wrote These Dense Quotes
140 authors contributed a total of 156 Dense Quotes, led by these top contributors: