Volume Quotes

466 quotes by 394 authors

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many… — Herman Melville
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the… — Ralph Merkle
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. — Robert Morgan
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may… — George Muller
I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by… — Rachel Nichols
I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened,… — Edward Norton
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise,… — Pablo Picasso
When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do. — Robert Plant
I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice. — Zack de la Rocha
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. — George Saunders
I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age. — Charlie Sheen
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. — Susan Sontag
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered… — Gay Talese
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume. — Paul Theroux
What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the… — Marlo Thomas
The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all. — Johnny Thunders
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust,… — Mark Udall
I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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