Volume Quotes

466 quotes by 394 authors

In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary… — Johannes Brahms
The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for… — Mick Fleetwood
The worldâ€™s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. Itâ€™s loud… — Henry Rollins
There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words.… — Howard Snell
Archimedes said Eureka, Cos in English he weren't too aversed in, when he discovered that the volume of a body in the bath, is equal… — Richard Digance
Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions. — Tim Ferriss
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to… — Pete Seeger
I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape… — Aaron Levie
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot… — Joseph Howe
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in… — Francis Darwin
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes… — Helen Vendler
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We… — Albert Einstein
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were… — Washington Irving
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the… — Michael Herr
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer… — William Safire
I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got… — Billie Holiday
The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in… — Tony Hayward
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau
Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or… — Jodi Picoult

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394 authors contributed a total of 466 Volume Quotes, led by these top contributors: