Volume Quotes
466 quotes by 408 authors
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when…
— James M. Barrie
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It…
— Robert Benchley
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The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly…
— Conrad Black
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But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the…
— Ritchie Blackmore
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
— James Agee
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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 eyes with its…
— Julie Burchill
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
— William Ellery Channing
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
— George Chapman
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There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
— Laurence Sterne
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
— Oscar Wilde
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In volume terms, the Tasmanian wine industry is as tiny as its potential is large.
— James Halliday
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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 of the issue.…
— Steve Shaw
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare…
— Richard Bach
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When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies…
— Alistair Cooke
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Within the book and volume of thy brain...
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Volume Quotes
408 authors contributed a total of 466 Volume Quotes, led by these top contributors: